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Microsoft Provides Sneak Peek of Edge on Mac, 16 Years After Safari Replaced Internet Explorer [Update: Now Available]

I’d never use this over Firefox as a backup browser over Safari, my default. Having said that, I’ve recently found some issues cropping up with Safari, including failure to load Recapcha authentications and inability to refine default behavior for downloadeded files. Hopefully a little competition will be a shot in the arm for Cupertino coders to bring Safari up to speed.
 
My main browser is Firefox with Safari for a few select sites.
I have to ask WHY?
Why would MS devote resources to doing this when the penetration amongst Mac Users will be very small.
Why would I contanimate my MacBook with this POS?

A good number of us don't want anything to do with MS when it comes to MacOS.

Also, does it 'phone home and slurp'? If it does, which master gets the data? Microslurp or Google?
 
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GadgetBen said:
In my industry there are still dinosaur companies who only develop for Internet Explorer and not Chrome and Safari. So this would be welcome, although not solving the problem of the short sighted dinosaur developers.
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Chrome is becoming the new explorer and it’s a problem. Google is cornering the IT tech heads and making use of chrome a requirement to access certain websites or functions. Safari’s engine is open source and does not require a server to run in the background sending data to Google, but now web designers are using chrome’s proprietary extensions instead of open sourced Safari extensions, so the web is once again controlled by one company and when something better comes around, the pain will be really.
 
DragoniteD said:
Whenever I can use Safari, I use Safari.
Whenever I cant, I use Chrome.
I would rather Microsoft spend the effort for something else... Maybe compatibility for iWork files with Office apps? Gonna be way much more useful/helpful
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Same here. I use Chrome on my work laptop because IE is so terrible. But at home and all my iDevices, it's Safari.
 
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GadgetBen said:
In my industry there are still dinosaur companies who only develop for Internet Explorer and not Chrome and Safari. So this would be welcome, although not solving the problem of the short sighted dinosaur developers.
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Edge is not IE. Even more now that they switched to Cromium. Something that only runs on IE will still probably not work on Edge.
 
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Ikea Pax Planner a flash based dinosaur still runs best on Windows Internet Explorer not Edge. So if this Chromium Edge on macOS can emulate IE in a tab, I'll like that.
 
jsalda said:
This just reminds me of the browser war with Netscape. Would love to see an all-out war now between FireFox, Safari, Edge & Chrome.
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I’m pretty sure an all out war would leave Chrome standing, Firefox dead, and Safari and Edge platform specific and nearly irrelevant.

That’s not a world I want to live in, so I really, really hope your war doesn’t happen.
 
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From my experience, EDGE is the worst browser in existence, worse than IE by far. Sure it's faster, sleeker, more modern. BUT... if you happen to encounter a ransomware site, kiss all your work goodbye, because EDGE will not let you quit (you gotta Task Manager kill it). And if you restart EDGE, you're back to the ransomware website because it restores previous sessions automatically with NO option for a clean slate.

Well, you can start new session (no restore), but it requires tinkering in the system (which I had to do to fix my Boss' computer). I have since removed Edge as a browser choice for Da Boss.
 
DragoniteD said:
Whenever I can use Safari, I use Safari.
Whenever I cant, I use Chrome.
I would rather Microsoft spend the effort for something else... Maybe compatibility for iWork files with Office apps? Gonna be way much more useful/helpful
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And now there’s an alternative for Chrome which doesn’t involve Google.

Now why would they make Office compatible with iWork when they can just let people use and buy Office only. That’s not going to happen. iWork is great for what it is, but limited by design.

I’d rather have them improve Office for iPad, adding all desktop functions.
 
GadgetBen said:
In my industry there are still dinosaur companies who only develop for Internet Explorer and not Chrome and Safari. So this would be welcome, although not solving the problem of the short sighted dinosaur developers.
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Except that this is not Internet Explorer - it is a Chrome browser re-labeled as a Microsoft browser.
 
Anyone remember those days when Internet Explorer was the default browser on the early versions on Mac OS X?

Trying to use Mac OS X Cheetah and Puma was more "pioneering / exploring" than actually "using" and IMHO I think MS helped Apple to push Mac OS X to its users by having this browser being actually usable.

Fun to see Edge coming to macOS and probably the browser of choice when using Office 365 online, but for the rest I will stick to Safari.
 
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Safari is my main browser but I find there are some websites (typically those with a lot of input controls) that REALLY kill Safari performance. I've generally gone to Chrome on those sites but I'd welcome another option. Particularly given that Edge will now be Chromium based but MS doesn't have the privacy baggage that Google/Alphabet does.
 
New products does not always guarantee innovation, it sometimes artificially disturb the market.

The more browsers there are, the more they will try to exclude each other and the more proprietary pages will be designed (to exclude each other). Bad for web designers. I am glad that the plague Adobe Flash is defeated. I don't want to experience this again.

I'm glad how well Safari synchronizes with iCloud across all iDevices.
Why leave that good, secure (at least for macOS) and fast browser with best memory management and Webkit pioneer?
I stay with Safari.

Pages I can't open with Safari doesn't interest me per se. So I uninstalled Chromium (never tried Google Chrome) at some point because I don't feel like wasting time on pages the are optimized for other browsers anymore.
What can't be done with Safari won't reach me. That makes it easy for me, and if we all thought like that, all pages would be openable with Safari.

"Options are good...". This is unlikely in this case...
1. Who ever did html-coding knows how specific the pages are tailored to different browsers. More browsers to test is all superfluous work and a waste of resources, I think.
2. In order to somehow place their browser in the market, Microsoft will quickly tailor its 365 apps specifically to Edge. It's easy to do. This is how the highly competitive market works. Therefore I would boycott this browser for sure.
3. Why does Microsoft do this? To give good things away for free? Hardly! So...


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yesjam said:
Some may dismiss this as "only" a Chromium browser, but I think it could be popular amongst those who would rather trust their data to Microsoft than to Google.
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Exactly, precisely why I'm interested - and who knows maybe they even do a better job of memory management and reducing the bloat
 
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