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One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's
by dumbmatter 9y ago
One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones".
That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS, CAN YOU GUYS FINALLY SUPPORT ALL OF THE INDEXEDDB API? EVEN SAFARI DOES IT NOW!"
So sad when poor multinational corporations simply don't have the resources to compete with obscenely wealthy organizations like Mozilla. Maybe they should try open sourcing their browser so the community can pitch in?
- MBCook 9y agoIt’s been two years. And I bet normal everyday users aren’t asking for that.
- lostcolony 9y agoYeah, but I'm willing to bet normal everyday users don't use terms like "browser experience" either. In fact, I'm pretty sure that anyone who understands the concept of different browsers (rather than referring to whatever standard browser they have as "the internet"), uses Edge primarily to download Chrome or Firefox.
- MBCook 9y agoI’ve used edge. It’s fine. If MS had lots of people complaining about sites that didn’t work or said ‘Edge not supported’ to people who went there and that was because the site needed IndexDB I’m sure they would have added it. It clearly isn’t a huge issue for them. I can see people saying ‘If I use Edge my phone doesn’t sync bookmarks and stuff like Chrome so I use Chrome.’ I don’t think saying things like ‘people only use it to download Chrome’ is helpful. It’s not IE 7. It’s a perfectly fine browser.
- lostcolony 9y agoYes, it was partially tongue in cheek. That said, most of those who understand there are multiple browsers likely do so due to a time when, yes, IE was -terrible-...and so all their saved stuff, preferred plugins, etc, are in Firefox or Chrome. So their first act on getting a new computer is to reinstall and sync that stuff. Not "give that new Microsoft browser a spin".
- DonHopkins 9y agoThere was actually a time in history when Internet Explorer was arguably the best browser on the Mac! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac
- ConceptJunkie 9y agoThere was a time when IE was arguably the best browser for Windows. Unfortunately, this time was about 20 years ago.
- abiox 9y agoit still lags behind in supporting various things. i had hoped edge would show a commitment to features and standards, but alas.
- MBCook 9y agoSuch as? I mean are they real problems or are they the bleeding edge stuff people are always mad Safari doesn’t have yet?
- frou_dh 9y agoAfter a Win10 user does that, they will have not one but two unused browsers lingering on their PC (both IE11 and Edge). I name this ship Bloaty McBloatface.
- dumbmatter 9y agoIt's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial IndexedDB implementation, and Edge is still missing features that Chrome and Firefox had 5 years ago. And I was being facetious, I know I'm not a normal user. Some normal users would like to play a video game I wrote that won't run in Edge due to missing IndexedDB features, though.
- martinald 9y agoMozilla is obscenely wealthy as charities go. It must be one of the world's most asset-rich charity in the world. Billions of dollars...
- dumbmatter 9y agoYou are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can apply to that program and get some extra funding?
- revmoo 9y agoI'd settle for them just getting out of the browser business.
- ekianjo 9y ago> most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs Are there really people using Microsoft Edge out there? I mean, because they want to, not because they have to?
- BoorishBears 9y agoI did for a while, Chrome is a resource hog compared to Edge. iirc I stopped using it because of issues with passwords not auto filling consistently (it sounds like a small deal but it gets old having to open a password manager 10 times a day with a 20 something character password)
- pmontra 9y agoHow about leaving it open, (auto) locking the screen every time you leave the pc? It should be as safe, if you trust the screen locker.
- BoorishBears 9y agoThe main problem was the auto locking, I set my PC to go to sleep after 10 minutes (it's a really power hungry setup)
- pmontra 9y agoI'm not familiar with Windows nowadays. If it wakes up locked and asking for a password you are fine. That's the setup of my Ubuntu laptop. Lock the PC, leave it on a desk, it goes to sleep. You come back, wake it up, type in the password to unlock. The weakest link is remembering to lock the pc. Auto lock after some minutes is ok only at home.
- BoorishBears 9y agoThe password manager locks when the computer goes to sleep, I'm not sure that it's optional behavior (and if it was I'm not sure I'd want to disable it)
- Tarean 9y agoI don't use it as my main browser but it starts basically instantly, is reasonably snappy and uses far less resources than either firefox or chrome. If you don't have your browser open all the time it seems like a reasonable alternative.