Edge is my new default browser
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...and it's kinda weirding me out. I mean: it's a good browser: I've seen no problems, no crashes, no rendering issues. I'm still getting used to the Search box being the default input (though if you put in a URL it acts just like an address bar) but this, at least, reflects how it's actually being used. However it's IE. OK, it's not, but it has the blue "e" and it's from Microsoft and I've signed the IE must die petition and everything, yet here I am using, and enjoying using, a browser by Microsoft starting with "e". It makes me nervous. It's my default browser because as a web developer I need to ensure the stuff I write will work on the platforms most used, and Windows 10 will be big. So I've made Edge my default browser, and I thought it would bug me, and...it's not. I'm liking Windows 10. A lot. In spite of my deep fears. Fears that have been honed from decades of frustration and disappointment with overhyped underdelivery. So far so good.
cheers Chris Maunder
Yeah, I'm loving Windows 10, and Edge when I use it now and again.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Who the hell do you think you are? Coming here spewing your bullsh*t. You like W10? Nobody likes W10! Nobody is allowed to like it around here! You think you own this place? Get back to your cave, troll! /s
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Joke icon...perhaps? :confused:
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...and it's kinda weirding me out. I mean: it's a good browser: I've seen no problems, no crashes, no rendering issues. I'm still getting used to the Search box being the default input (though if you put in a URL it acts just like an address bar) but this, at least, reflects how it's actually being used. However it's IE. OK, it's not, but it has the blue "e" and it's from Microsoft and I've signed the IE must die petition and everything, yet here I am using, and enjoying using, a browser by Microsoft starting with "e". It makes me nervous. It's my default browser because as a web developer I need to ensure the stuff I write will work on the platforms most used, and Windows 10 will be big. So I've made Edge my default browser, and I thought it would bug me, and...it's not. I'm liking Windows 10. A lot. In spite of my deep fears. Fears that have been honed from decades of frustration and disappointment with overhyped underdelivery. So far so good.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
to the Search box being the default input
You mean, like in Chrome, there is only one bar - honest question, I have never seen Edge ? I have never understood why the navigation bar and the search bar should be different. I cannot report one single occurrence in which having only one bar was a trouble since ever they came up with teh feature in Chrome (that means several years ago). I even installed the FF add-on Omnibar at work (we're compelled to Firefox) to get the feature as well there.
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Who the hell do you think you are? Coming here spewing your bullsh*t. You like W10? Nobody likes W10! Nobody is allowed to like it around here! You think you own this place? Get back to your cave, troll! /s
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Mladen Janković wrote:
You think you own this place?
:laugh:
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Who the hell do you think you are? Coming here spewing your bullsh*t. You like W10? Nobody likes W10! Nobody is allowed to like it around here! You think you own this place? Get back to your cave, troll! /s
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+5 :)
cheers Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
to the Search box being the default input
You mean, like in Chrome, there is only one bar - honest question, I have never seen Edge ? I have never understood why the navigation bar and the search bar should be different. I cannot report one single occurrence in which having only one bar was a trouble since ever they came up with teh feature in Chrome (that means several years ago). I even installed the FF add-on Omnibar at work (we're compelled to Firefox) to get the feature as well there.
The one problem I have with the Omnibox is that it leaks information. It leaks info about previously visited sites - this would be acceptable if I was typing in an address, but when I'm doing a search it really isn't on. Info leaks into a Incognito mode session, though I doubt it leaks back out. I like the feature, but was left red-faced by it just last week. :doh:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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The one problem I have with the Omnibox is that it leaks information. It leaks info about previously visited sites - this would be acceptable if I was typing in an address, but when I'm doing a search it really isn't on. Info leaks into a Incognito mode session, though I doubt it leaks back out. I like the feature, but was left red-faced by it just last week. :doh:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
enhzflep wrote:
about previously visited sites
But this is also the case for the separate navigation and search bar, ain't it ?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
to the Search box being the default input
You mean, like in Chrome, there is only one bar - honest question, I have never seen Edge ? I have never understood why the navigation bar and the search bar should be different. I cannot report one single occurrence in which having only one bar was a trouble since ever they came up with teh feature in Chrome (that means several years ago). I even installed the FF add-on Omnibar at work (we're compelled to Firefox) to get the feature as well there.
Rage wrote:
there is only one bar
That's how I have IE 11; why have two boxes that do the same thing?
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The one problem I have with the Omnibox is that it leaks information. It leaks info about previously visited sites - this would be acceptable if I was typing in an address, but when I'm doing a search it really isn't on. Info leaks into a Incognito mode session, though I doubt it leaks back out. I like the feature, but was left red-faced by it just last week. :doh:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Joke icon...perhaps? :confused:
One would assume that /s at the end would be enough.
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...and it's kinda weirding me out. I mean: it's a good browser: I've seen no problems, no crashes, no rendering issues. I'm still getting used to the Search box being the default input (though if you put in a URL it acts just like an address bar) but this, at least, reflects how it's actually being used. However it's IE. OK, it's not, but it has the blue "e" and it's from Microsoft and I've signed the IE must die petition and everything, yet here I am using, and enjoying using, a browser by Microsoft starting with "e". It makes me nervous. It's my default browser because as a web developer I need to ensure the stuff I write will work on the platforms most used, and Windows 10 will be big. So I've made Edge my default browser, and I thought it would bug me, and...it's not. I'm liking Windows 10. A lot. In spite of my deep fears. Fears that have been honed from decades of frustration and disappointment with overhyped underdelivery. So far so good.
cheers Chris Maunder
Cool. Did you do an "in place upgrade" or a "new install"? If an upgrade, how'd it go? Did you have VStudio installed and did it survive the upgrade? Any other notable apps and their survival rate?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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enhzflep wrote:
about previously visited sites
But this is also the case for the separate navigation and search bar, ain't it ?
No really, no. When the bars are separate, I can type something into the search-bar without it betraying my previous browsing history. When they are the same input element, one opens oneself up to failures like I did last week.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote:
I like the feature, but was left red-faced by it just last week.
Oh, do tell!!!!!
Hmmmm. :~ Since the lounge has the KSS rule, I wont go into much detail. I enjoy many things unconventional - be they movies/music, women or lifestyle choices. The pursuit of said interests takes me to many less-travelled places in the world - both physical and virtual. Of relevance in this instance, is my interest in women that are similarly broad-minded and are happy to eschew some of mainstream society's conventions with regards to personal grooming. So anyway, I was searching for a datasheet for a 1/2 wave rectifier with a fella I do some work for. Not thinking, I started to type in "half wave rectifier" - it would have been fine if only I'd used numerals instead of words, or typed the third letter a bit faster. :doh: Oh well, can't lose 'em all!
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Joke icon...perhaps? :confused:
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...and it's kinda weirding me out. I mean: it's a good browser: I've seen no problems, no crashes, no rendering issues. I'm still getting used to the Search box being the default input (though if you put in a URL it acts just like an address bar) but this, at least, reflects how it's actually being used. However it's IE. OK, it's not, but it has the blue "e" and it's from Microsoft and I've signed the IE must die petition and everything, yet here I am using, and enjoying using, a browser by Microsoft starting with "e". It makes me nervous. It's my default browser because as a web developer I need to ensure the stuff I write will work on the platforms most used, and Windows 10 will be big. So I've made Edge my default browser, and I thought it would bug me, and...it's not. I'm liking Windows 10. A lot. In spite of my deep fears. Fears that have been honed from decades of frustration and disappointment with overhyped underdelivery. So far so good.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
So far so good.
Is that not what dolfins sang before the earth was distroyed?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cool. Did you do an "in place upgrade" or a "new install"? If an upgrade, how'd it go? Did you have VStudio installed and did it survive the upgrade? Any other notable apps and their survival rate?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
In place upgrade on both my machines. One was via the web download, one via an iso. Both very smooth. VS 2013 never skipped a beat. Even Start8 survived (and makes Win10 even nicer!)
cheers Chris Maunder
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Hmmmm. :~ Since the lounge has the KSS rule, I wont go into much detail. I enjoy many things unconventional - be they movies/music, women or lifestyle choices. The pursuit of said interests takes me to many less-travelled places in the world - both physical and virtual. Of relevance in this instance, is my interest in women that are similarly broad-minded and are happy to eschew some of mainstream society's conventions with regards to personal grooming. So anyway, I was searching for a datasheet for a 1/2 wave rectifier with a fella I do some work for. Not thinking, I started to type in "half wave rectifier" - it would have been fine if only I'd used numerals instead of words, or typed the third letter a bit faster. :doh: Oh well, can't lose 'em all!
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
:-O
cheers Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
So far so good.
Is that not what dolfins sang before the earth was distroyed?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
You're thinking "So long, and thanks for all the fish".
cheers Chris Maunder
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From what I heard/read, Microsoft could not make a decent browser anymore based on the old framework of IE, Edge allowed them to do something totally different, with a different model. Hopefully, the browser continues to do well. I also hope that Windows 10 does well, both for us the consumer/user, and for Microsoft, as a company. :thumbsup:
I, personally, want to see Apple get its arse kicked and force it to go back to focussing on quality and user experience. I love Apple products. Or I did. If Windows 10 makes Apple sit up and actually properly updates iOS, and makes MacOS stable, and hires some devs who understand networking and multithreading, then we have two really good systems that will compete and innovate and keep each other honest.
cheers Chris Maunder
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You're thinking "So long, and thanks for all the fish".
cheers Chris Maunder
Yeah, exact... mix of languages, sorry
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.