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Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser for Mac Officially Launches
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Hey, they actually named a web browser - you're dealing with a veritable expert here so lucky you. Usual responses to that question would include "Google", "Office 2016", "AT&T", "Apple", "Windows 10", "The internet", "The curly 'e' thing", "Windows Explorer", "SFO Free WiFi" or "Urrggghhh.... braaainssss....".
(Being boring - it's just Microsoft Edge, the Chromium bit is buried on the 'About MS Edge' page... actually the non-Edge version on Windows doesn't seem to have an 'About' page and seems to be called "Edge Legacy" now...).
Love it. It is super fast.
Until the browser plugins catch up and get installed and then it will bloat. However, Chrome has become a HUGE memory suck. It often eats more RAM than Photoshop.
Until the browser plugins catch up and get installed and then it will bloat. However, Chrome has become a HUGE memory suck. It often eats more RAM than Photoshop.
you can use chrome web store for extensions, must enable third party stores in settings
On the click-through before you can even download the binary:
Source code for portions of Microsoft Edge is available free of charge from https://thirdpartysource.microsoft.com under the third party open source license terms provided at http://aka.ms/thirdpartynotices and in Microsoft Edge at edge://credits after installation.
(...and to think I wasted all that time going to check the filing cabinet in the disused lavatory behind the 'Beware of the leopard' sign before even thinking to check the 'download' link...)
Webkit doesn't solve the problem. The problem is Microsoft. They seem to only be able to create software that is (a) bloated; (b) full of holes that hackers exploit; (b) track EVERYTHING and send it home to mother. That's enough for me. Safari works perfectly fine for me for everything I do. I have used Edge on our windows 10 system my wife uses. She is ready for me to install Linux on it and get rid of the daily anti-virus updates, crashes, hangs, reboots, slowdowns, you-name-it. My unix systems just run, with no drama. They just run. Ever wonder why all the time-critical machines around the world are running various flavors of Unix rather than windows? Answer is pretty obvious to some of us.
No matter how long ago Linus made his quote, it is STILL 100% accurate.
No matter how long ago Linus made his quote, it is STILL 100% accurate.
Chrome did, Edge doesn’t, that’s the point I was making. And it feels much smoother and quicker to load pages than Safari. Not joking!
That used to be the case. And I was right there with you hating on Windows. It was bad from ME-Windows 8 (Yes, I hated Windows 7). However Win10 in it's latest versions is quite good. I've got 3 here and they run just fine out of the box. Main system is a monster Ryzen 7 box that runs a VMs and is my main photo/video editing box. Has no issues making a month of uptime or however long it is until an update. Running the OOB virus stuff and it's fine. Don't think much about them. They just work.
IMHO most people's negative perception about Windows probably comes from the poor corporate images they are forced to work with. I work for a major corporation. They gave me a decent spec laptop - i7, 8GB, SSD, Windows 10. It SUCKS. They load that thing down with so many agents and other BS it's crazy. I think my tray has 4 of them in it for various things - remote assistance, remote inventory, updates, "workplace optimization", etc. It will pause randomly, spin up the fans and generally have poor battery life. It's a junky image.
Oh, and before you tell me I don't know UNIX, I'm a veteran Linux admin so I know how rock solid it can be. But a poorly installed ore maintained Linux box can be as unreliable as Windows used to be.
As much as I hate to admit it, I think the reason Linux runs most of the world has to do with cost. You can get CentOS or Ubuntu or even roll your own for $0. You can support it yourself and spin up thousands of servers for nothing more than the hardware cost. Licensing costs for, say Google's servers on Windows would kill them. Linux is $0.
Thank you for having a mind of your own and not being an “I hate Microsoft” sheep. I have been using Edge Chromium since beta and it is easily my most favorite browser to use. It does everything very well.
Instead, you get the tracking of Microsoft! Have you not heard all the privacy stuff regarding Win10?
The millions of people who has the Microsoft Office suite in their Macs.
Since I'm planning on buying the cheapest Windows laptop I can find this weekend I'm downloading now to see what it look like. I'm guessing it comes installed with Windows 10 and since I will only use the laptop a few times a year I probably won't even bother to install another browser.
If it renders exactly like the windows platform then I'm okay with it. When developing web sites I have to test it on many browsers so hopefully it eliminates testing under Windows.
Hopefully we don't see a update immediately message from MS every other week because of a root exploit.
Hopefully we don't see a update immediately message from MS every other week because of a root exploit.
Safari for personal, Firefox for work. Firefox is incredibly amazing these days, way better than chrome. Highly recommend you switch if you’re using chrome.
The ONLY reason why 3rd party browsers miss out on iOS integration is because Apple won’t let you change the default browser.
Safari is ok, but I’ve been using a Firefox and I’ve been liking it better. Especially when I use iOS, Mac, Linux, and Windows. Safari is useless on anything not Apple.
I also use 1Password, so I don’t have to worry about passwords syncing. Bookmarks sync without an issue across all different platforms and operating systems.
You seriously don't think Microsoft tracks anything?just see the reports on Windows 10. This will be no different.
Having used the new Edge in beta there's definitely some analytics going on. I've sniffed some of the traffic and it was nothing worth noting.
The new Edge is a huge improvement. It renders web sites well, runs fast, has a nice UI. If you're a regular Windows user this means you probably won't need another browser unless you have specific needs.
Also, I want to point out (as I've mentioned in other threads) that I have monitored the traffic between my Apple devices and Apple's servers and my Microsoft devices and Microsoft servers. The reality is that Apple collects a lot more data than Microsoft. And Microsoft is quite transparaent about it, too. They have detailed information on their web site explaining what's gathered and how to disable it. Apple has virtually nothing and many times doesn't let you opt out. Windows 10 got a bad rap when it first came out, but Microsoft has been better lately and if you're willing to do a little bit of reading you can just use Group Policy Editor or Registry Editor to turn off a lot of the analytics.
You seriously don't think Microsoft tracks anything?
This is funny. Good thing it’s just Edge and not Windows 10. 😂
Even before I switched back to Windows as my primary device I was admiring the new direction Microsoft is taking. They really have a great focus. Windows 10 is awesome; I find it substantially better than macOS. It comes bundled with OpenSSH and the Linux Subsystem, features I use everyday. Recently they've added Windows Sandbox (a lightweight virtual machine for testing software), Application Guard for running their browser in a virtual machine (a lightweight virtual machine that runs only the browser), and on and on.
Apple users often have this vision of Microsoft from way back when. It's nothing like that now. Windows is a solid operating system with excellent developer features and the best part is that quality hardware on which to run it is reasonably priced.