They do?! Gosh that is amazing.
Not everything has a keyboard shortcut. The browsers are better than they used to be but they are still different enough in basic design to be annoying.
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Microsoft Provides Sneak Peek of Edge on Mac, 16 Years After Safari Replaced Internet Explorer [Update: Now Available]
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Not everything has a keyboard shortcut. The browsers are better than they used to be but they are still different enough in basic design to be annoying.
I remember the schlock that was Internet Explorer for Mac. Microsoft has a long way to go to convince me to use any browser they develop.
IE wasn't bad at all on the Mac if you had a some what decent system at the time. My g3 700mhz 256mb ram handled it fine on OS X. Now the one on OS 9 sucked
Edge is a good browser to download a better browser like FireFox or Brave. Other than for that, who willingly uses Edge? Especially on a Mac where Safari really seems to be the best that I’ve used on my Mac.
If anything, in 2019 you’re describing Chrome.
And this is Chromium based.
And Blink is a fork of WebKit. Which is a fork of KHTML.
In other words... your sarcasm would’ve been relevant in 1998. But it isn’t now.
Edge is Chromium. Of course it can't do anything Chrome can't. Except that Edge is not from Google.
Edge will appeal to those who like Chrome but not Google. Edge is a way to get Chrome from Microsoft.
In my opinion, it hardly matters but some people care about it.
Care to elaborate on why that is funny?
From a purely utilitarian point of view it provides many, if not most, of the same features as competing browsers, with the main difference being that it is limited to certain (Apple) platforms. Regardless, it still works with 98% of websites and for everything else there is Chrome, Firefox, or maybe now Edge.
I would agree with your sentiment if we were talking about Safari circa 2004, but it has come a LONG way in the past 15 years.
This doesn’t really solve a problem. If a company only uses IE/Edge. Chances are that company does not have any Mac computers, and if they did they’d likely only use Safari.
Although I welcome competition, why are they even doing this? They are entering a platform with three fierce competitors in safari, Firefox and chrome. I wish them the best of luck but I don’t see Edge gaining significant traction on the Mac.
What I’d love to see is Safari-Chrome hybrid. The speed and functionality of Chrome with the sleek and minimalistic look of Safari. Chrome looks too clunky on Mac for me.
Microsoft has kicked off its annual Build developer conference in Seattle with a preview of its upcoming Edge web browser for Mac.
In a blog post detailing new features coming to Edge, which is being rebuilt with the same open source Chromium rendering engine as used by Google Chrome, Microsoft provided a sneak peek at how the browser will look on macOS. While only a brief glimpse, the browser looks somewhat similar to Chrome.
Microsoft shipped its first preview builds of its revamped Edge browser for Windows last month, but the browser remains listed as "coming soon" for macOS. The Verge believes the Mac version will be available "very soon," likely including both the Canary and Dev channel builds as on Windows.
Edge will be Microsoft's first web browser on the Mac since Internet Explorer received its last feature update nearly 16 years ago. Internet Explorer was the default web browser on the Mac between 1998 and 2003, when Apple released Safari on Mac OS X Panther, which has been the default ever since.
Edge succeeded Internet Explorer as the default web browser on Windows in 2015 and is also available for iOS and Android.
Article Link: Microsoft Provides Sneak Peek of Edge on Mac, 16 Years After Safari Replaced Internet Explorer
Apple invests a lot into Safari. Let's hope the broad adoption of Chromium across several vendors doesn't give them an excuse to throw in the towel.
Microsoft has kicked off its annual Build developer conference in Seattle with a preview of its upcoming Edge web browser for Mac.
Edge! You've got to be joking. It's the one browser compatibility that breaks in all QA testing! I would never think of installing such s^#& of any computer - Mac or PC.
I’m glad they spent thousands and millions of dollars to develop a browser no one will ever use in the history of the world ever. What a smart decision.
Meanwhile, Word on the Mac still absolutely sucks, lacks thousands of features it has on Windows and costs the same. And I’d guess it’s the no. 1 3rd party app on Macs worldwide. So why the ****ing hell aren’t they focused on improving that????
Meanwhile, Word on the Mac still absolutely sucks, lacks thousands of features it has on Windows and costs the same. And I’d guess it’s the no. 1 3rd party app on Macs worldwide. So why the ****ing hell aren’t they focused on improving that????
9 in 10 Macs have Chrome installed for when you inevitably and inescapably run into a website that does not run well on Safari. It’s even the default browser for many corporate-issued Macs. So no issues here
I like to use Safari, but it’s an absolute dog for all things video. So I have Chrome too.
I did.
It downloaded Google Chrome without any issues, so it served it's purpose 100% satisfactory.