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Microsoft Edge is actually good lmao (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows bad, give Internet points!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Edge browser bad, give Internet points!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn kids these days.

Internet Explorer was bad, give me internet points.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back NSAPI plugins!

I miss visiting random dubious websites, only for a command prompt to pop up and disappear, and then sudden CPU and network spikes as it does god knows what...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back anti-trust lawsuits, while we're on the topic of cool things that aren't done anymore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are! There are US antitrust cases going on right now against Google (x2), Amazon, and Meta/Facebook. Some links that may be of interest:

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) -- trial began on September 12, 2023 (this case regards search, I think)
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) -- complaint PDF (this is a second case against Google)
FTC v. Facebook

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

MOAR!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm an edgy corporate fuckboy, give Internet points!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The funny thing is: Edge isn't actually a bad browser. It's basically Chrome with custom Microsoft UI. So it behaves like pretty much all other browsers except Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not only UI, but also trackers by microsoft. Btw no I wouldnt say chrome is a good one either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

chrome with microsoft ui

hence bad

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except they force side buttons and other crap onto it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just started it for you, since I'm on my work device which runs Windows.

What exactly do you mean? Looks like a plain browser window to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to disable some outlook sync feature a while ago that opened on every new tab, otherwise it's been fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. It is very integrated into the OS. Since it is the OS default browser released by the same company as the OS this is no surprise.

As a tech-savvy user one can configure it to their use case. Everyone else can simply use it as it is and they will be fine most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can disable those

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know, but it's like all windows crapware, "you can disable them" yeah that sucks because from time to time it's Kazoing back after a reboot...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox good, Steam deck good, unity bad!