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Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser for Mac Officially Launches
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Not to rile the goth kids, I have been using this since the first betas for MacOS. Just installed on my iPad it synced with my Mac install pretty much instantly. Unless I’m as stupid I can’t find how to change the homepage. Not interested in MSN. on MacOS version it works as one would expect.
This looks cool. I typically avoid Chrome but use it for testing website development and for using Google products in a separate browser (I have to use some for work). This looks to be more secure and they actually did a pretty good job with the icon, lol. I’ll give it a try.
Ever since Safari added browser tabs I’ve been using that and it’s actually fine now and I daily drive it. Also I’ve been using Firefox some more and it’s actually way faster than Chrome and I’m pretty sure it uses less memory. It’s crazy how far that app has come. Makes me think of the good ol’ days when Firefox first came out and I replaced IE with that because it was so much faster on my oldish PC.
Ever since Safari added browser tabs I’ve been using that and it’s actually fine now and I daily drive it. Also I’ve been using Firefox some more and it’s actually way faster than Chrome and I’m pretty sure it uses less memory. It’s crazy how far that app has come. Makes me think of the good ol’ days when Firefox first came out and I replaced IE with that because it was so much faster on my oldish PC.
You can very easily set the default web browser in Mac OS X. It’s right there in System Prefs. Do you even use a Mac?
The poster was referring to the inability to set the default browser in iOS, not macOS (which hasn't been called Mac OSX for years btw).
Looks exciting! I just hope they don’t do something crazy down the road like fork Chromium and create a nightmare for compatibility.
That said, I’m cautiously optimistic. Microsoft has been firing on all cylinders lately (if you told me I’d be typing that 15 years ago I would’ve laughed in your face).
That said, I’m cautiously optimistic. Microsoft has been firing on all cylinders lately (if you told me I’d be typing that 15 years ago I would’ve laughed in your face).
Windows 10 native Microsoft Edge is garbage. I also have been testing Microsoft Edge Beta (still am) for the past 2 months on a work image in Window 10 Enterprise 1903/1909 build and it's a LOT faster for both intranet/sharepoint sites and external sites vs Chrome and Firefox (latest build). I don't really care much for using a plethora of extensions so I'm good with using it alongside FireFox.
personally on Windows: I trust FireFox 1st, this canary of Microsoft Edge (not Windows native).
personally on OSX: I trust Safari first (High Sierra tabs doesn't sync so I'm annoyed), then FireFox ... here it's a matter of convenience out of the box (iOS + OSX vs FireFox and iOS FireFox and setup to match).
I'm still on the fence of trying this out on OSX though ... hmmm. I'll read past page 1 of this thread to see the majority consensus.
Does it have a more stable “Restore all previously open tabs” than Safari and Firefox?
I swear at least once a month each of those will crash and not be able to restore any of my open tabs. It’s 2020; I’m baffled why this is such a challenge — should’ve been rock solid 99.99% success rate years ago.
Step 1
Download FireFox, Microsoft Edge (chrome engine) or similar bowser. Many like Microsoft Edge (Canary) have built in 'import from other browser'
Step 2
Export your bookmarks and passwords (backup), note your extensions (similar or same are available).
Step 3
create a microsoft account (outlook.com) to get similar webmail, word/excel/powerpoint and OneDrive online. Alternatively you can us LibreOffice and alternative online fileshare options: mega.nz, Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync (is this even still around?), etc. lots and lots of options.
Step 4
Download ALL your pictures and videos pronto! Backup. Purge from Google. Heck even upload same amount of photos with same name but random pics not of your own on the internet (just to mess up Google lol).
Step 5.
DELETE your Google account after sending email from another email account. Notify all automated notification emails, web app/site registrations to the new email or alternative email account.
REMOVE any funds you have associated to Google. De-Authorize ALL and ANY payments associated with Google! ! !
Live life as an Icon!
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What you've described is a sysadmin abusing power 'job to use their own discretion'. Have you:
- evaluated the product? the poster just below you stated they'd be testing, your post states nothing.
- scanned for any intrusions, ports used, communications to outside sources?
- researched more about what this product does do from the perspective of IT Security? by Sysadmin are you in Security or just administration of network? very different roles for network security/intrusion and corporate network compliance and safety.
- sourced any reports of said product for your reason to block?
Just some thoughts - you may have done all and more yet not stated it so we're going with own opinions here. 'who is 'they' btw?
Are there any internal legacy sites using Microsoft Silverlight or Flash still that requires? there is support for the latter here - but maybe killed in final release announced.
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Yes it does.
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Yes, I've heard that it also starts an infinite number of Microsoft services, incl. all their third parts.
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From what I can tell, it's a solid browser. Microsoft has been impressing me lately. It seems their commitment to the open-source community these days is different from their old "embrace, extend, extinguish" days.
Other than addon support, the old Edge was very good for Windows. It provided the best battery life. If this new Edge can retain the battery life advantage and allow for some much needed addons, this will be a win. I installed it on all my Windows computers just now.
That irony when a non-profit has its own browser and engine but a $1T company can't make their own...
There is 0 reason to use this unless you hate Google and in love with Microsoft accounts. If you want Chrome you can use Brave or Chromium. What reason do you have to use the same browser except that its injected with spyware?
There is 0 reason to use this unless you hate Google and in love with Microsoft accounts. If you want Chrome you can use Brave or Chromium. What reason do you have to use the same browser except that its injected with spyware?
Someone has head in the sand for two decades.
Windows isn’t even in the top ten CVE list of operating systems when it comes to the number of security vulnerabilities, and hasn’t been for at least 4-5 years. (No Microsoft product is in the top 25 of all software products either) The top of the list? Linux distros, Android, with a few others (including macOS) thrown in the mix. If you want a hackable system, run Linux.
Edge has excellent battery life on Windows and Microsoft has a lot of experience with MacOS development. If Edge Chromium has better battery life on MacOS compared to its cousins, then it is a very solid option.
As for spyware, you will need to quote some sources...
What you say is all true but as soon as you need to use 1 device that is not Apple for like work or gaming all of this falls apart cause there isn't a decent sync anymore between all devices and you cannot sync keychain. So all this is manual work. I tried is for a while but when I save a new bookmark and made a new account somewhere with strong password I had to open another browser, bookmark too and login there too with the copied password too make it available to my work laptop and my gaming rig. This is not very practical at all.
Also the safari extension ecosystem is quite terrible and you have to pay for a lot of stuff. Of the 5 extensions I use only 1 is in the 'App Store'.
It's ideal for the Enterprise and integrates perfectly with Windows 10, Office 365 etc. With SSO I can literally access & do everything from Edge if I wanted to. If you're all in with Microsoft then Edge is a no-brainer.
I've been running the dev build since release and Microsoft has done a great job. I'm still running the dev build on my work Windows 10 PC, so I'm guessing what I am seeing will come to the stable channel users next month or so.
The average consumer doesn't need Edge, so you can carry on using whatever you like. Edge isn't going anywhere. If you don't specifically need Google Chrome, then Edge is more than good enough. For all those Windows 10 users who get new PC's, then they'll feel right at home with it.
The Chromium project is largely driven by Google now. It's really not as simple as non-profit engine being used by Microsoft. It's a Google driven project being used by Microsoft. That project happens to be non-profit and open source.
Microsoft can and did make their own. However it was problematic with Google services as Google kept moving the goal posts on their products to slow down Edge. The previous version of Edge provided better YouTube performance than Chrome, and Google changed the page layout to break the performance advantage Edge had.
Eventually they just switched the engine Google use so they could keep up with the changes Google were making.