• average650@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    Edge used to be unique,but then they just copied chromium… It had much smaller scrolling which was great on touch screens. Now I have no reason to use it.

    • siriusmart@feddit.ukOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      opera also used to maintain their own browser engine if i remembered correctly, but they all just dipped

    • Balssh@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      On the flipside, atm Edge seems to be the better Chromium choice (if you don’t have a Microsoft hate boner).

      • SCmSTR@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Let’s be clear: it’s a very good browser, very HTML5 compliant, and perhaps one of the best browsers…

        …Assuming you don’t care about insane amounts of spyware - AND not having a lot of really cool browser add-ons (those having spyware and memory leaks is a separate topic, but I want to acknowledge these problems).

        Edge makes more calls home per second than any other piece of software on my computer. I looked at my live log and it was a literal stream. Nearly every single action you do is tracked and sent… (waves hands confusingly up in the air in circles) …somewhere. Likely Microsoft, but I really don’t know.

        Almost all of Windows is like this too. I hate it so much. There’s just no great way to have nice things right now.