New Edge browser in Windows is just ...wow! 🤬

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I'm sorry, but you're all wrong.
I run Mac System 9 on my 2015 iMac via SheepShaver. It has the latest and greatest and only browser one would ever need -- Netscape Navigator.
All else is mere frippery...

 

[nickdalzell1]

I got Netscape 9 on my PB G4 Titanium, and while it can pull in a lot of modern sites, it's extremely memory intensive for 128MB RAM. Netscape's a shame what happened to it. Great browser for its time.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

There's still Firefox, a direct descendant of Netscape Navigator.

If you type in "about:mozilla" into the address bar, you will get the red page that you would have seen twenty years ago. The quote is different...

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

There's still Firefox, a direct descendant of Netscape Navigator.

If you type in "about:mozilla" into the address bar, you will get the red page that you would have seen twenty years ago. The quote is different...

You learn something every day.

From Firefox --
"The Beast continued its studies with renewed Focus, building great Reference works and contemplating new Realities. The Beast brought forth its followers and acolytes to create a renewed smaller form of itself and, through Mischievous means, sent it out across the world.

from The Book of Mozilla, 6:27"

From Netscape --
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.

from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10 "

From Classilla --
"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31

(Red Letter Edition) "

 

[rafark]

and slow (hey, it's Chromium)

This is just not true. Chrome’s V8 engine literally changed the internet.

 

[canesalato]

The 2020 Browser Battle: Surfing With Speed

www.anandtech.com

 

[nickdalzell1]

There's still Firefox, a direct descendant of Netscape Navigator.

If you type in "about:mozilla" into the address bar, you will get the red page that you would have seen twenty years ago. The quote is different...

Firefox is a shadow of its former self. Ever since 'Quantum' it's started to cater to stupid folks who need protection from themselves. It forces updates on you (even if you turn that off it annoys you about it) and I can't browse Reddit since it's been deemed unsafe by whatever algorithm it uses. I hate dumbed down software!!! It also forces tabbed browsing which I hated ever since it became standard. I always use multiple windows but modern Firefox you can't hide the tab bar anymore. That extension is broken. Firefox also has this very annoying 'Gah! your tab just crashed!' (was a thing on Chrome years ago and I hated it then) which is just its way of saying 'hey! you're using too much RAM and CPU! let me default to a blank page and erase your history of where you were this session!). I hate modern Firefox.

It's like the developers don't want folks to modify their software. Even tricks like About:config have been majorly gimped.

 

[simonmet]

This is just not true. Chrome’s V8 engine literally changed the internet.

Well whatever Microsoft did to Edgium made it a dog’s breakfast on my 16”er and I had slow, choppy scrolling. I even saw some benchmarks that had the old Edge ahead in speed. Even so, it’s more the forced nature of the “upgrade” I had issue with.

But anyway, I switched to Brave on Windows and that is chromium-based and it is fast so obviously it’s not Chromium that’s the issue, I concede.

 

[pshufd]

Edge is the only Chromium based browser that can run iCloud notes without taking up 12 GB of RAM on my system. Chrome, Brave, Opera have the problem and Edge used to have it but it appears to have been fixed.

 

[kyussmondo]

- It's far more 'secure' and less 'data sucking' than Chrome.

I do like Edge Chromium too, but this is just incorrect. Edge is actually the worst offender when phoning home, even worse than Google Chrome. And while I will agree that Chrome is very data sucking, it is known for being a secure browser.

Study ranks the privacy of major browsers. Here are the findings

Upstart Brave browser gets the highest ratings. Chrome, Firefox and Safari fall between.

arstechnica.com

If you are looking for privacy, then you should probably go with something like Brave. Microsoft is just as bad as Google for sucking as much data as they possibly can. I’ll admit that Brave Sync is a bit rubbish, but that is sometimes the price you pay for privacy and security (i.e. not having your bookmarks and other browsing info synced through the cloud). Also, out of the box Brave is more privacy respecting and includes an in-built ad-blocker.

If only Apple made Safari cross-platform. They have had Safari on Windows in the past, but it sucked and was discontinued, and their extensions are lagging behind the competition, like no ublock Origin, no 1Password X etc.

 

[simonmet]

I like Brave. Nice pictures every time I launch it. No annoying news feeds I never asked for. Plentiful settings arranged relatively logically. Snappy™. Comes with ad and tracking blockers. These are the main things I’m looking for.