Microsoft is trying a new way to stop users from downloading Google Chrome. If you open the Chrome download page in Microsoft Edge, you may see a new banner at the top. This version looks different from the usual prompts that ask users to stay with Edge.
I’m curious, what if I download Firefox from Edge? 🤔
I had chances to peek into some of my friends’ laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge. MS’s strategy looks pretty stupid, but it’s actually working.
I see no reason to use chrome over edge. I’m a Firefox guy these days, but if I have to use a chromium browser, I’m using edge.
Why not just plain chromium?
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it’s a whole extra step.
Same shit, different color logo.
Edge is already installed for the half dozen times a year I need to specifically use a chromium-based browser.
Might I suggest vivaldi
shrug any major benefits of google branded chromium over microsoft branded chromium are a moot point to me since google curb stomped fully functional adblocking extensions.
People have always defaulted to the… default.
Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium’s bullshit… edge is perfectly fine.
So how do you explain the chrome dominance? Did I miss something and the dominant os is chrome os this last decade ?
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I’m not being aggressive, but your statement just makes no sense?
Either people pick the default and it’s mostly edge/safari, which as per your own statcounter source is clearly not the case. Or people are not as dumb as you make them out to be and pick the one that suits them.
How is this even relevant? If you make a statement about people in general, it doesn’t matter which people specifically are mentioned.
But thanks for the humoring!
I prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don’t have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.
Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.
There’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own fediverse instances.
After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.
I’m not the person you were replying to, but I enjoy Vivaldi’s tab grouping and window splitting features, specifically. The fact that they haven’t been actively trying to shove AI down my throat is also a plus.
It’s working because a lot of people are pretty stupid.
It’s working because Edge isn’t IE and it’s actually a decent browser. It’s just Microsoft chromium instead of Google chromium.
Yeah, but chrome/chromium is relegated to trash-tier now, due to the introduction of manifest v3 and the blacklisting of uBlock Origin.
As far as chromium based browsers go, edge is actually one of the best. I have a portable degoogled chromium I keep locked in a vault myself, but that’s only because I ripped edge out of windows. If I wasn’t the type of person that got irrationally furious about edge running in the background using up system resources doing whatever the fuck windows was having to do, I would just use edge when I needed a chromium browser.
And I’m pretty sure our heavy capitalist model is the main reason