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I've actually found something Edge does better than Chrome.

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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

    Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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    theoldfool
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    Not to worry. Will be removed in the next update... :laugh:

    If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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      Not to worry. Will be removed in the next update... :laugh:

      If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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      You're a bigger cynic than I am! :laugh:

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        You're a bigger cynic than I am! :laugh:

        Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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        Do I get a (participation) trophy?

        If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

          Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          Must be an edge case.

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

            Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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            Ravi Bhavnani
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            OriginalGriff wrote:

            No, really! I'm serious.

            Now I'm on edge! /ravi

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

              Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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              GKP1992
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              I recently assembled a PC for home and I noticed that Chrome took really long to load a site, first I thought that my Internet was bad, but noticed that the Wifi was working fine. And when I used edge, it loaded all sites pretty fast on the same connection. I'm starting to like it for browsing purposes. For reading, I use Sumatra PDF.

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                Do I get a (participation) trophy?

                If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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                Roger Wright
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                Only in California...

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                  Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                  _Superman_
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                  Now I get it - Edge Computing

                  «_Superman_»  _I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.

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                  Polymorphism in C

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                    Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                    dan sh
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                    Edge is actually not that bad. Chrome is going little bit downhill IMHO. It has become considerably slower and number of background processes it now creates are increasing day by day (reminds of FF; don't know if foxie has changed). Still, Chrome is what I use all the time. Few more proper updates to edge and I might jump the ship.

                    "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                      Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      Allan Thomas
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                      I use that all the time (with my non-DRM ebooks) and the fun thing with MS is you can pin the web page to your start menu so you have your current book on the start menu but it doesn't show the cover

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                        I recently assembled a PC for home and I noticed that Chrome took really long to load a site, first I thought that my Internet was bad, but noticed that the Wifi was working fine. And when I used edge, it loaded all sites pretty fast on the same connection. I'm starting to like it for browsing purposes. For reading, I use Sumatra PDF.

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                        Lost User
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                        I went with Sumatra PDF too, Adobe was getting like chrome, memory hog, way too often firing off to check for updates chrome default install has it checking EVERY 10 MINUTES for updates - I guess even google realities chrome is so bad it needs to check that often for fixes - too bad if you're on a pay-by-volume/time connection (which sometimes I am) - which is why I'll remove chrome wherever I see it, these days it's just badly done: wastes memory, these days getting slow it wastes your time, and for many now wastes money too! Google, "do no harm" - well done. Once upon a time internet explorer was the biggest browser - because the masses had no idea how to get something better. Now chrome is the biggest for exactly the same reason - the dumb masses have no clue how to get something better.

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                          Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                          Allan Thomas
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                          I use this all the time for my non-DRM ebooks and pin the current book I'm reading to the start menu. But the only annoying thing is it doesn't show the cover on the start menu :( (which makes trying to work out if the pinned book is the current one I'm reading or not annoying) while explorer shows the cover when it's displaying files as tiles just fine.

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                            Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                            Dominic Burford
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                            I've been saying exactly the same for a while now. It also makes a great PDF reader.

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                              I went with Sumatra PDF too, Adobe was getting like chrome, memory hog, way too often firing off to check for updates chrome default install has it checking EVERY 10 MINUTES for updates - I guess even google realities chrome is so bad it needs to check that often for fixes - too bad if you're on a pay-by-volume/time connection (which sometimes I am) - which is why I'll remove chrome wherever I see it, these days it's just badly done: wastes memory, these days getting slow it wastes your time, and for many now wastes money too! Google, "do no harm" - well done. Once upon a time internet explorer was the biggest browser - because the masses had no idea how to get something better. Now chrome is the biggest for exactly the same reason - the dumb masses have no clue how to get something better.

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                              GKP1992
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                              Chrome got bloated over time. I think MS is doing something right by keeping Edge just a browser and not making it your mother. I like the minimalist approach.

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                                No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                                Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                Nother elephantingly annoying un-feature of Chrome is: - highlight word - Ctrl-F - Expect word in search-box - Be disappointed

                                "If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  No, really! I'm serious. It natively reads EPUB files, and acts as not a bad book reader at all. Even if you load a reader extension on Chrome, it's really quite a poor reader, or at least the one I found is. Never thought I'd find anything good to say about the execrable Edge, but I'm glad I did.

                                  Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                  RickZeeland
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                                  On my new notebook I didn't even bother to install an Ebook reader or PDF reader, just used Edge for that. Everything worked fine until a week ago CodeProject started behaving badly (or Edge), now I'm using Edge mostly and Chrome for some sites only.

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                                    Nother elephantingly annoying un-feature of Chrome is: - highlight word - Ctrl-F - Expect word in search-box - Be disappointed

                                    "If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

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                                    GKP1992
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                                    No edge for edge here. :laugh:

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                                      Chrome got bloated over time. I think MS is doing something right by keeping Edge just a browser and not making it your mother. I like the minimalist approach.

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                                      If its just a browser then why does it keep becoming my default pdf reader, something that I find intensely annoying Not surprised but strange that other companies can no longer automatically set themselves as default but microsoft products have no such limitation If Edge hadn't been forced on me by every update for years I might be more inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt.Edges behavior means I consider it to be malware

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                                        If its just a browser then why does it keep becoming my default pdf reader, something that I find intensely annoying Not surprised but strange that other companies can no longer automatically set themselves as default but microsoft products have no such limitation If Edge hadn't been forced on me by every update for years I might be more inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt.Edges behavior means I consider it to be malware

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                                        GKP1992
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                                        MikeD 2 wrote:

                                        If its just a browser then why does it keep becoming my default pdf reader

                                        Not sure about that, it never went back to being the default PDF reader after I changed it. I've been using Win-10 regularly at work and at home for more than 2 years now.

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                                          MikeD 2 wrote:

                                          If its just a browser then why does it keep becoming my default pdf reader

                                          Not sure about that, it never went back to being the default PDF reader after I changed it. I've been using Win-10 regularly at work and at home for more than 2 years now.

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                                          I would say pretty much every major windows update has caused mine to revert to Edge for PDF and most of the earlier ones also reverted to default of Edge for browsing To me that's malware as it is changing the configuration of your PC after it has been explicitly configured to work differently, without asking for consent

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