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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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I wish the browsers didn't all look the same. I use different browsers for different purposes (Safari for general use, Chrome for development), and without looking at the menu bar, it's not obvious which is which. I've looked at themes to differentiate, but they're all butt-ugly.
So is Edge on macOS is a M$ Trojan horse to bring vulnerabilities to macOS, just like Windows? Doesn't Edge for Windows have a built in Flash plugin? What about Edge for macOS?
Or is this a M$ attempt to eventually rope macOS customers into unecessary Office365 $ubscriptions.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/06/edge-chromium-build-2019-pwa-ie-mode-devtools/
It's the M$ drug dealer business model.
Or is this a M$ attempt to eventually rope macOS customers into unecessary Office365 $ubscriptions.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/06/edge-chromium-build-2019-pwa-ie-mode-devtools/
It's the M$ drug dealer business model.
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This can be interesting regarding better integration with share point, office, AX D365 and other Microsoft products.
I like safari too, but I never figured out how to sync my bookmarks, passwords, and browser history between my iPhone, Mac, and Windows PCs. I don’t want to use additional third party programs to handle those tasks.
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I remember not being able to watch Apple events with anything but Safari.
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One advantage of the new browser that Microsoft is promoting is that Edge will have an IE mode for supporting legacy sites.
reCAPTCHA is the problem with reCAPTCHA. I cannot stand that process. The “Click on all the ___ “ tests are such a drawn out pain in the ass. At least half the time a small amount of whatever you’re supposed to be selecting overlaps into an additional tile...and whether reCAPTCHA thinks it’s enough of an overlap to count is a judgement call even they don’t make consistently.
It should not take 15 clicks and 45 seconds (If all goes well) to prove you’re “Not a Robot.” The only thing it has going for it, and this amounts nothing, is that it serves as a reminder of how poorly the web used to work and how crappy interfaces used to be. So if you use Disqus (or some other sucker who pays for reCAPCHA) then simply the act of getting past that “human test” can make you glad that almost nothing like it exists anymore. That’s glass half full, right?
Your point, that recapcha can be a pain, is valid, different, and a lesser problem. My point is that Safari doesn’t reliably load recapcha content, crippling the ability to use websites that use it. I can deal with a bunch of clicks if I must, but I have to start all over again with a different browser if I can’t login or register at a site because Safari can’t handle current code.
Maybe they should work on cross compability for Outlook archive files.
Outlook for Mac can read files that Outlook for Windows creates, but Outlook for Windows cannot read files that Outlook for Mac creates.
I literally have a VM on my mac for 2 reasons. Email archiving and Visio
I hear you, it has different features than Chrome, but it was built in Chromium. That's my point.
I miss good old Explorer on the Mac many years ago. Really was an amazing browser at the time. I boot up my old iBook every now and then and see what sites still work with it. Not many. 
Chrome/Chromium are no longer using WebKit. Google forked into their own engine Blink a few years ago.
I think you are between 10 to 15 years late to the discussion. The Microsoft war is long over. Microsoft has actually become cool now and plays nice with Apple... oh, and Windows 10 is actually pretty good.
I don't know if you realize it, but you've actually hit on the crux of the matter, after a fashion: the massive unpopularity of Edge makes it a very easy target for this full-on Chromium (aka Blink) overhaul; this new version of "Edge" will really only be related to the legacy versions of Edge in name alone. The fact that Chromium has already been ported to the Mac would just make it dumb to not release some kind of a Mac version.
But, as has always been the case with Microsoft, there will be feature differences between the Windows version and the Mac version: I would posit that Microsoft is only going to bother making changes which require minimal effort, and which can specifically benefit Microsoft. That means, the IE rendering subsystem is guaranteed to be missing from the Mac version, as that would be a heavy lift which offers no real value to Microsoft itself, whereas the easily mined and monetized personal information gathering capability inherent in linking the browser to a Microsoft account (for storing history, bookmarks, cookies, etc.) is pretty much guaranteed to be included, since it's likely to be little more than a few minor configuration changes. (Ergo, point anything that says "Google" to an equivalent "Microsoft" server.)
I'm not sure how much is still relevant 3 years later, but
Are you seriously going to call sync a privacy violation? That's no different than using iCloud to store files, or iMessage.
Pika's comment is still a perfectly valid summary; Google forked Webkit to Blink specifically so that they could make changes independently from Apple, but Blink's parentage is still rooted in the Webkit/KHTML codebase.
Microsoft treats users data a hell of a lot better than Google. If you can do 100% of your browsing in Safari then sure, little reason to install Edge. But if you can't - you'd be much better off installing Edge rather than Google Chrome or any of the other Chromium based browsers that contain all the google services integrated.
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It gives you everything good about Chrome with the Google cruft and data collection services stripped out. If Safari works for you 100% of the time and you have zero need for an alternative browser on the Mac then you wouldn't need/want it.