What are your thoughts on MS Edge browser?
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I only have Edge on my new laptop and since I'm still doing 90% development on my 6 year old tower, I haven't used it much. For the occasions when I did use it, the most notable thing to me was that MS still haven't fixed the 'bug' where downloading a file with an 'unknown' extension tries to switch the extension to .zip. Is that supposed to be some sort of safety feature?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
I decided that I had to give it a serious try when I got Windows 10 - went the whole distance and started using Bing too. First time I loaded it up it went unresponsive a few times, but it's worked fine ever since. Only graphical glitch I've noticed was on the login screen for CodeProject where the social media buttons were hanging down into the footer. The reading mode is pretty cool for whenever I want to read an article on one of those add ridden 'news' sites, kinda like what I use Opera Mini for on my phone. I'm pretty sure this is where someone tells me that all browsers have a read mode. Oh and the Web Notes thing is cool too, but I haven't really found a legitimate use for it. I'll probably eventually go back to using Chrome though, just because it can sync all my stuff into all my computers (Chromebook included), and computers at work that don't have Edge available.
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I found that Edge tries to do everything within the Edge package -- a great majority are in direct conflict with software provided by the copyright holders of the technology they are trying to emulate. I will admit that the PDF viewer is quick, but terrible if you want to extract text from a page for quotations in a thesis paper. The other holdup is SSL security checks where a minor conflict occurs. The pop-up window sometimes comes in BEHIND the Edge window and Edge stops, waiting for your reply to a question you can't see. There are a few other anomalies that I find irksome. Prime example is that you have to left-click select on a right-click display of redirect options. (I'm one of those individuals who performs a search and right-clicks the links to display the results in new-tabs for detail comparisons.)
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Great analysis and info. Thanks.
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
I found similar to you. Basically worked OK, but occasionally gets VERY slow - particularly when connected via 3G on my laptop. Seems related to adverts, but why they seem to load an order of magnitude slower than other stuff, I don't know. Also seems to sometimes not respond to page up/down keys, have to use the touch screen. Not sure why, but it's annoying until I work out what's happening and just use my finger ;-) There's a few things I do that need plugins, so the inability for it to use them is annoying and forces me to use another browser. A bigger issue is that it seems to cause hangs when entering/exiting sleep mode - I think a problem with my video driver (Intel HD Graphics). Occasionally get that still, but much less than when I used Edge as the default browser - I had to switch to another for stability. Rod
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
clawton wrote:
if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that?
Probably. I having upgrade yet, but I'm CDO enough to use my own content blocker filters in FF. I've optimized some slideshow sites loading time by >10x by blocking all of the 3rd party clickbait containers splattered all around (taboola can EOADIAF). Some of them I'm able to get another doubling by nuking the first party clickbait bucket and site header as well. It's appalling how badly some of that crap performs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
I tried it with my Win 10 install. I thought the interface was ugly and its functionality pissed me off so I went back to IE. I don't do much recreational surfing so my needs are basic and IE works fine (even though apparently it sucks based on what I hear here). It's an if it ain't broke (for me) don't fix it thing. As I grow older, I am becoming increasingly weary of having to continually adapt to new software when the old stuff does everything I need it to. The cheese, the cheese, where's the elephanting cheese? X|
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
I use my hosts file to block ads. Yeah, it's gotta be updated periodically, but that's the price you pay for ad-free browsing...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
Sucks. 1. Imported all my info from Chrome.. upside down. 2. When I click in the address bar and start typing.. I have to do that twice. 3. I try to 'Save As' and there is no 'Save As'.. Where'd that go?? Who's brainf@$t was that? 4. Why can't I go to the file it just downloaded? 5. Tried to add a bookmark down inside a folder.. nope. Only so many levels.. getting ugly! 6. So it locked up.. Chrome doesn't do that on the same site! 7. Video playback isn't smooth 8.. enough.
ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Frank Outlaw.
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I use my hosts file to block ads. Yeah, it's gotta be updated periodically, but that's the price you pay for ad-free browsing...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I've been using it for about a month or so. I find that many of my favorite sites work just fine and appear to load fast (CP, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) but then if I stray and get sucked into something like a site with the top 17 funnies cat videos or whatnot, the pages are agonizingly slow. Probably partly due to Edge not have my beloved AdBlocker but is it really just that? Are others not seeing the hyped speed improvements too?
I'm using it on my Surface, but am annoyed that they don't have any of the touch gestures that even Chrome has there (like sweep across page to go back/forward). Even more annoying is that they also removed such gestures from IE in Windows 10. All in all Web browsing on Windows 10 is a worse experience than on Windows 8, and I think it is due to pushing us to Edge, and crippling IE on there to make sure we move. Other annoyances, cannot highlight text and right-click to search the web. As I recall History is broken as well. I'd say it is barely usable. I am mostly using Chrome now, which is ironic because on Windows 8 on that particular machine I used IE.
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Right. Edge wins in comparison to IE but does it win when compared to other browsers?
I haven't installed Firefox or Chrome since I did a clean install of Windows 10 in early August. Since I've never used add blockers in any browser I can safely say that Edge is as fast or faster than any other browser I've used. If a site uses too many ads I simply click away from it or close the window.