Microsoft: I don't want Edge. Really.
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats?
Only in Europe, and everyone at the time slammed the Europeans for it, calling them all the names under the sun for wanting to protect their citizens against the slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations. It's nice to see the cows come home to roost.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
Every now and again I wind up Edge and that reminds why I dislike it so much compared to IE or Chrome.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats?
Only in Europe, and everyone at the time slammed the Europeans for it, calling them all the names under the sun for wanting to protect their citizens against the slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations. It's nice to see the cows come home to roost.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Only in Europe
Yeah, the US didn't have a problem with it at all[^]. :doh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
I developed a bespoke HTML editor for use in our intranet as the editor for articles, etc. it works completely with IE9+, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Vivaldi and even Firefox. I have just been told that I might now have to make it work with Edge as we are having to now support Windows 10 as we get new PCs in. My solution is to make sure Chrome is installed as standard and default on our new PC images! :-D
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
Why is edge the default PDF viewer when opening from an email - oh right Office 365, keep it in the family.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
But they know what's best for you. :-\
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
I quite like Edge as an alternative when Chrome goes belly-up on me while debugging, or something like that. I have no complaints with it as a browser.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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Why is edge the default PDF viewer when opening from an email - oh right Office 365, keep it in the family.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Oh yes, I said in a previous comment I have no complaints with it as a browser, but as a PDF reader, well, where do I start?
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
I like Windows 10 and I like Edge. It is not a mature browser, but I really like Edge style and I use it by default. But I have to install other browsers for testing purposes and what bothers me is that they all want to be the favorite, the default. Browsers not only request to be the favorites in the installation, they repeat their demand even if you tell them to not repeat it. And not only the browsers request to be themselves the favorites: many associated products try to set them as default, pin them, etc. For me is the opossite: I like the convenience of not having to pin and select as default Edge. And if a windows update ensures that Edge is the favorite, that's make me happy :) In Spain we say that "it never rains to everyones's taste": you can't please all of the peope all of the time. Anyway, in the software by default war everybody should down the weapons to reach peace.
Sorry for my bad English
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats?
Only in Europe, and everyone at the time slammed the Europeans for it, calling them all the names under the sun for wanting to protect their citizens against the slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations. It's nice to see the cows come home to roost.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations.
Like VW's emissions frolic?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
It's sad when I have to use the open with internet explorer option to get my website to display correctly. However, edge is improving especially after the last two feature updates I have noticed improvements. I still slap Microsoft by using edge for Bing points and then an hour later switch to IE mode for a website that refuses to load. Microsoft's probably like: "freeloader!" By now.
jeffery
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
I use both, Chrome and FireFox for development and testing. I do need at least one browser where no development is going on and which is why I use Edge. I know, that I can always find my emails, drives, and other company related stuffs over there while chrome and firefox usually remain over-tabified! :-D Definitely, I am not gonna use it for development, but as a user, I have not found any such issues with it.
Piyush K Singh
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
It lost me at the start when it didn't have an ad-blocker. I'll unblock for sites that I reasonably trust not to serve me up malware or overly intrusive ads. Browsing without one on by default feels like sex without a condom - only with those I trust and have a long relationship with and will risk a pregnancy with. (Cue list of similarities between *ware and pregnancy.)
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Every now and again I wind up Edge and that reminds why I dislike it so much compared to IE or Chrome.
Edge is still missing one essential option (Chrome is also missing it by the way!): Option to automatically switch to a new tab when I right-click --> Open in new tab. Both IE and Firefox have that option, not Edge, not Chrome. I hate it when I see a new tab open and not being brought to it automatically... why the hell did I open it if I didn't want to go there?
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I quite like Edge as an alternative when Chrome goes belly-up on me while debugging, or something like that. I have no complaints with it as a browser.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
It's not the browser that bugs me. It's the lack of respect for my settings. Deliberately resetting only settings that relate to your choice of browser is lame.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations.
Like VW's emissions frolic?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
They're German.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They're German.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
To me: slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations There's an old saying "you can't smell your own".
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Every update it seems that my preferences for whether I want Edge in the quick launch (no), Edge pinned to the taskbar (No thanks) and my default browser (Chrome) get reset to "YES! I love Edge and want it everywhere!". Constantly. Didn't Microsoft get shamrocked a few years ago for something to do with ramming a certain browser down people's throats? At least it's good to see Microsoft have recovered, dusted themselves off, and are back in the game.
cheers Chris Maunder
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To me: slimy, money-grubbing actions of greedy, foreign corporations There's an old saying "you can't smell your own".
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
Didn't you notice the word "foreign", tucked quietly away in the clause? What does that word tell you that I'm talking about? If I were talking about the money-grubbing corporation at the end of my street, I would have used the words "the money-grubbing corporation at the end of my street".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Didn't you notice the word "foreign", tucked quietly away in the clause? What does that word tell you that I'm talking about? If I were talking about the money-grubbing corporation at the end of my street, I would have used the words "the money-grubbing corporation at the end of my street".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Well foreign depends upon where you live, no? So - taking the context from your post (q.v.)[^] And money grubbing horrendous practices are basically a defect in capitalism (in its search for profits) and socialism (in it's take-it-or-leave-it quality model). Not that either has to behave that way - they just always do. The us-and-them reminds of a currently active political candidate's strategy - but rallying Europe against the US is always popular for European politicians. Works here, too. Consider Takata airbags[^]. A model for which all industry can strive!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
