• TehBamski@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Haters gonna hate. But I’ve been using Edge for a year now as my main browser and I prefer it over Google’s browser. Yes, it was built on the Chromium open-source project. But the end result is what I was after. Something that wasn’t just Google’s ‘X.’ Industry competition is very much needed.

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      12 days ago

      Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.

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        12 days ago

        completely agree. i think a lot of people (myself included) will probably never give edge a fair chance because of how insidious and annoying microsoft has been about trying to get people to use it. i don’t really hate edge as a browser (i’ve never really tried it), but i do hate the feeling of the browser being forced upon me

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      12 days ago

      I did a fresh install of windows 11 and I opened edge the first time only to crash after a second because it couldn’t handle the fact that I wasn’t signed into a Microsoft account.

      It crashed immediately every successive attempt to open it.

      After the 15th try (mostly for my own amusement) I downloaded Firefox from the windows store so that there’d be a functional browser in the VM I had just set up for someone to use to run essentially the last scamware app he still needs for hopefully not much longer (cough intuit cough)

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      12 days ago

      Vs Chrome? Naw. Everyone’s allowed their opinion, but those who prefer Edge usually haven’t actually used modern Firefox, especially with the right extensions. I never install it without uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic…

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        11 days ago

        I had never heard of Consent-O-Matic. It works for Firefox on Android too! I couldn’t install it fast enough! Thanks for that! :D

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          10 days ago

          I don’t know why I don’t hear much about it, but they made all extensions work with Firefox mobile about a year ago! I didn’t even use Firefox on my phone until then…