Anyone else really wishing MS would fix Edge
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As much as I had written MS off of the browser battles years ago, when I kicked the tires on Edge I was really impressed with some of the feature set and thinking that were put into their updated offering. The notating, sharing and collaboration concepts really are to me welcomed additions to the user experience then the frustrating crashes came!!! But to my amazement when I started the browser back up it remembered where I was almost always which was 'almost' worth partial forgiveness. I had used Chrome till it became run down and jumped ship to FF, back to Chrome again and then again to the Fox... with forays into several other along the way just to see what else was out there. I've kept checking back at Edge just because I liked the feature set and hoped that MS would fix its burgeoning child browser and it might just mature into something that would be useful. That has proven to show a gradual improvement but I am frustrated with how slow that improvement is evolving. Hang-ups and dropouts still persist on this browser far more than I would consider reasonable but despite that I really wish that MS would get it's act together and fix this browser because I would love to adopt Edge as my primary browser. What about y'all? Ken...
I only use Edge at home when I need to visit a site with a different session; otherwise it's FF. I used IE9+ occasionally and it wasn't bad, but even URL search of previous websites is a mess in Edge. For desktop and laptop, I have so many add-ons for FF and I am so happy with it, I have no ambitions to change. For phone, I use Chrome when I need to browse.
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I used it, once. I downloaded Chrome, and haven't used Edge since, except to check bugs on sites to make sure it's not a Chrome artifact. No extensions == no AdBlock or uBlock == no chance.
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I think adblock and extensions are available in latest versions of Edge.
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Sounds like you may need these Modelos more than me... stop by the house tonight - I'm buying. :beer:
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You know what I wish? That MS would stop f***ing about with things where they clearly have no idea what they are doing and get back to what they are actually good at: operating systems that users like, office suites that users like, and development environments that developers like... :sigh:
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I think adblock and extensions are available in latest versions of Edge.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson 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
They are - in the '...' menu at the top right of the Edge window, there's an Extensions option. It looks like there are several different ad blockers available for Edge now.
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You know what I wish? That MS would stop f***ing about with things where they clearly have no idea what they are doing and get back to what they are actually good at: operating systems that users like, office suites that users like, and development environments that developers like... :sigh:
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Ah, to dream again.
Jeremy Falcon
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As much as I had written MS off of the browser battles years ago, when I kicked the tires on Edge I was really impressed with some of the feature set and thinking that were put into their updated offering. The notating, sharing and collaboration concepts really are to me welcomed additions to the user experience then the frustrating crashes came!!! But to my amazement when I started the browser back up it remembered where I was almost always which was 'almost' worth partial forgiveness. I had used Chrome till it became run down and jumped ship to FF, back to Chrome again and then again to the Fox... with forays into several other along the way just to see what else was out there. I've kept checking back at Edge just because I liked the feature set and hoped that MS would fix its burgeoning child browser and it might just mature into something that would be useful. That has proven to show a gradual improvement but I am frustrated with how slow that improvement is evolving. Hang-ups and dropouts still persist on this browser far more than I would consider reasonable but despite that I really wish that MS would get it's act together and fix this browser because I would love to adopt Edge as my primary browser. What about y'all? Ken...
I am using Edge quite sparsely. The company IT has not approved Windows 10 (or Windows 8.1, for that matter) for use on our systems. I do have Windows 10 on a VM for testing our software and that is where I occasionally take Edge for a spin. Firefox is the company approved browser and we get special builds. I have issues with Firefox (especially after that day it took over 10 minute to start up and I had an online meeting to host), so I mainly use IE even though I know Mr. Maunder does not like it[^]. I was using Chrome before I was issued a new laptop earlier this year at which point I just started using IE again. I really don't have the same kind of tight bond with any particular browser that I see many people do. I understand their frustrations if they have problems during web site development, but from a pure user standpoint, IE is working for me. If I switch to Chrome again, I am pretty sure it will work for me too. I do have Chrome installed and use it once in a while, just not as my primary go-to browser.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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You know what I wish? That MS would stop f***ing about with things where they clearly have no idea what they are doing and get back to what they are actually good at: operating systems that users like, office suites that users like, and development environments that developers like... :sigh:
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Well, they've got one of those right. IMNSHO, nothing beats Visual Studio 2015.
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Well, they've got one of those right. IMNSHO, nothing beats Visual Studio 2015.
Follow my adventures with .NET Core at my new blog, Erisia Information Services.
It's the best IDE I've ever worked with, but ... it gets slower each time, the UI gets a little worse, and they don't fix the damn bugs! :laugh:
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It's the best IDE I've ever worked with, but ... it gets slower each time, the UI gets a little worse, and they don't fix the damn bugs! :laugh:
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OriginalGriff wrote:
It's the best IDE I've ever worked with, but ... it gets slower each time, the UI gets a little worse, and they don't fix the damn bugs!
I found myself enjoying the UI more with each big release, but ReSharper's hot-keys do hell of a lot for me. I've even had them generating parameterized action methods.
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I used it, once. I downloaded Chrome, and haven't used Edge since, except to check bugs on sites to make sure it's not a Chrome artifact. No extensions == no AdBlock or uBlock == no chance.
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