Edge is Chromium based, so I discourage using it as your main browser, but honestly, it’s not that bad. Works fine and has some nice built-in features, so there are perfectly good use cases for it
What they do with that data? Nobody outside MS will ever know…
Edit: just found this page and this one, see section “How does Orion respect my online privacy”, but in summary, Edge has double of Firefox’s requests to home…
So, it gets kind of complicated, but basically I bought the Wacom One to use as a drawing tablet with Windows, Linux, and MacOS for PC/laptop drawing programs like Krita and Corel Painter (Humble Bundle purchase). Also had an iPad Pro that was slightly busted to take notes on PDFs of Powerpoints using GoodReader. Now I can’t remember if I failed to bring it with me or if it wasn’t working, but I only had my MacBook Pro and and the Wacom tablet to take notes with for a couple of months. Apple’s default PDF viewer Preview and even an app I had paid for a long time ago, Clearview, had no drawing annotation capabilities. But Microsoft Edge has a drawing annotation tool for PDFs that even Firefox doesn’t have. I think it comes from Microsoft Edge being the default PDF viewer in Windows.
thank you. I believe you are correct about edge being the default pdf viewer. Microsoft made edge into a big fat one tool to do everything chrome replacement.
thank you. I believe you are correct about edge being the default pdf viewer. Microsoft made edge into a big fat one tool to do everything chrome replacement.
which turned out to be useful on a Macbook, haha. Annotating PDFs with a drawing tool wouldn’t have been a problem on Linux.
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I use MS Edge on my steam deck and phone in addition to my desktop
i always just sudo apt install firefox
brew install --cask firefox, anyone? (:
same here
I install wine, so I can install IE6, so I can download Firefox. And then run it in VMWare in a docker container on my Commodore 64.
winget install firefox?Aaah, just like the old days of IE6 to get firefox. Nice to see firefox overtake chrome again for the day.
No one uses Ninite or Chocolatey around here?
I’ve stopped using chocolate with the advent of winget.
winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox.ESRNo need for Edge
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT EDGE THE SUPER OR BROWSWR WE PROMISE NOT TO COLLECT DATA AND STEAL YOUR LIVER
----MICROSOFT
Now we need Bowser the Browser.
I use winget and don’t have to touch edge
Downloads Vivaldi for me
vivaldi gang
This is just a recycled IE meme. Edge is much better than IE, but not as good as FF.
What about Librewolf?
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
This is the way
Edge is Chromium based, so I discourage using it as your main browser, but honestly, it’s not that bad. Works fine and has some nice built-in features, so there are perfectly good use cases for it
Can someone explain what is the benefit to Microsoft for having their own browser?
Data collection.
What they do with that data? Nobody outside MS will ever know…
Edit: just found this page and this one, see section “How does Orion respect my online privacy”, but in summary, Edge has double of Firefox’s requests to home…
Meanwhile me in Linux systems that come with Firefox: “You only exist to install Microsoft Edge”
It was the only way I could annotate PDFs without paying money using a Wacom One Tablet and a stylus in MacOS. That was one useful use.
Could you expand on this please?
So, it gets kind of complicated, but basically I bought the Wacom One to use as a drawing tablet with Windows, Linux, and MacOS for PC/laptop drawing programs like Krita and Corel Painter (Humble Bundle purchase). Also had an iPad Pro that was slightly busted to take notes on PDFs of Powerpoints using GoodReader. Now I can’t remember if I failed to bring it with me or if it wasn’t working, but I only had my MacBook Pro and and the Wacom tablet to take notes with for a couple of months. Apple’s default PDF viewer Preview and even an app I had paid for a long time ago, Clearview, had no drawing annotation capabilities. But Microsoft Edge has a drawing annotation tool for PDFs that even Firefox doesn’t have. I think it comes from Microsoft Edge being the default PDF viewer in Windows.
thank you. I believe you are correct about edge being the default pdf viewer. Microsoft made edge into a big fat one tool to do everything chrome replacement.
which turned out to be useful on a Macbook, haha. Annotating PDFs with a drawing tool wouldn’t have been a problem on Linux.