I know you can play the game at chrome://dino, but it doesn't evoke the same nostalgic feeling of a 10yr old me turning on aeroplane mode and spamming space bar to try and beat my brother's high score.
Good memories.
Honestly speaking, I've used Edge on Windows and have had no issues. It's a decent browser not taking privacy into consideration. The only thing pissing me off is supporting the Chromium monopoly.
I'm very glad it works for you. Edge is a perfectly fine browser ever since they ditched their engine and copied Google's Chrome with a coat of paint and a couple extensions baked in.
To be frank though, if Edge forking Chromium is the best the tech titan Microsoft can do, I'm genuinely disappointed in them, and I'd rather just use Chromium.
I think it was a sensible decision to drop their own engine as nobody liked it anyway. Might as well go with a proven one and use your resources on stuff your customers want you to focus on. Since Nadella took over, Microsoft has been very well managed imo and they made a lot of right moves, like their move into cloud computing, embracing open source, integrating linux subsystem on windows, etc...
Their choice to ditch their IE/edge engine is a symptom of these better managerial choices.
I use edge for my work accounts on my work computers. It's nice to have passwords auto fill and everything integrated through my windows sign on, and be "air gapped" from my personal stuff. I find experience to be basically identical to my home surfing on other chromium-based browsers.
For real I don't even mind Edge. I use it for work though and it's been great for what I need it to do. Firefox is for everything else that's not work related.
It is just Chromium and the hate most likely comes from it being made by Microsoft which is completely stupid because it's not like Google is any better. In fact, I would say they are worse that Microsoft since their business is entirely reliant on selling user data. Microsoft at least has other avenues of income allowing them to not completely relying on selling your data to the highest bidder. Let me be clear on this, I am aware that they all sell data because that is the business they are in.
Also, Edge preforms better and does not phone home to google like other Chromium browser so...
I just got a minisforum UM790 which comes with windows. So until I get my new SSD I'm checking out Windows 11. One thing I was happy about was that I could create a local account with no issue. No Winget without an internet account so I'm using chocolatey like I did long ago.
I don't know why but there's some websites I frequently go to that either don't work/load correctly with chrome or Firefox. I always made fun of my brother for using edge, but since I've started using it months ago I haven't had any issues like I had before. Additionally, it seems to be better at managing memory because I've never seen it consume anywhere near the amount of ram that chrome does. Also, edge allows you to neatly put your tabs vertically on a side bar and allows you to group tabs without having to get 3rd party add-ons.
Making fun of edge is like making fun of internet explorer, but feature-wise it's the same/better than other browsers. Props to Firefox but it's just never worked well for me
Out of the 3 browsers. Edge freezes most of the time for me, and with each update Microsoft inserts more uneeded & annoying bloatware and gotta figure out how to disable it.
Lol same. I also use it for time critical stuff where you don't want to risk a site breaking, like when trying to get tickets for good seats on a concert when sale opens.
Well, not exactly 10. Was born in 1999. Think I was maybe 14 or 15 when I first played it. Still feels like a long time has passed. Time flies when you're enjoying life.
I started a clean Windows install a few weeks ago. Upon first boot, I immediately deleted the program files folder for Edge in an act of defiance to Microsoft. I then realized I had no browser. Had to ask my son to put a Firefox installer on a flash drive for me.
To really stick it to windows try out Linux, there's plenty of comparable distributions with a windows feel. Else there are programs to disable and limit window's telemetry and advertisements.
I understand where you're coming from (there is a reason I'm a Linux user) but Edge isn't that bad of a browser. Obviously, browsers like Brave, Opera and Firefox are better but, at least from my experience, Chrome is significantly worse than Edge.
Edge has replaced Chrome for me actually. If any time Firefox doesn't work for me, or the website just runs better on Chrome, I use Edge. It's chromium, so it does everything Chrome can do, plus a few features like PDF viewing, collections, and lower resource usage than Chrome (maybe).
And, the hope is any Data Collection algorithms in it have been replaced by Microsoft. (Maybe with their own, but at least they don’t run an ad network)
Why wouldn't you just go back to the source: Chromium? There's even Ungoogled Chromium running strong and others similar to it. In some cases you need to do some shenanigans to get extensions to work (from the Chrome extensions store) but it's locked down enough that you can safely say fuck Google whilst still using the browser code Google colonized and made universal.
I use edge at work since it's here and my pdfs auto open on it. It's not that bad. I like how you can group tabs, makes things easier when doing research.
For me it's homebrewery (where people post their custom D&D monsters and such). That website doesn't render the pdfs properly unless using a Chromium based browser. Also Owlbear Rodeo (a virtual table top where our D&D group play) that has some memory issues? It just starts lagging like mad after a few minutes.
Also my SO's online therapy service only allow them to call with a Chromium browser.
Competablity was honestly felt better 10-15 years ago.
I use firefox/librewolf for everything and keep a chromium based browser around for those rare websites that don't work well on Firefox (fuck you google drive, ik you're doing it on purpose).
I don't know about you but whenever I fiddle around about:config in firefox, Google Drive stops working. Maybe make a new profile and don't change much in about:config? This got Google Drive working for me
And I use Edge for when a website doesn't work because of one of the privacy addons: some websites don't like to have the referrer removed, domains blocked or user agent switched.
Firefox for me, and then edge if I have issues with it. I used edge on its own for a while but I got tired of that homepage it keeps reverting back to for some reason
Usually use firefox for default browser, brave for PWAs, chrome for streaming to a Chromecast and edge at work for debugging because it connects nicely with Vs code
On desktop it's mainly Firefox, on mobile it's mainly the stock Samsung browser.
But I've started using Edge a bit more on mobile lately since I discovered its reading mode, which makes for a very clean readable format to read articles.
Oh man, you need to get on the Firefox for Android train. You can install uBlock Origin to block ads, and there's some other handy extensions as well. It also has reading mode and works really well, you'll see an icon that looks like a piece of paper on the right side of the address bar. You can also sync your bookmarks if you have a Firefox account, if that matters to you.
I'm not sure what kinf of features Edge has for PDFs, but FireFox has recently gotten an update to it's PDF editor so you can edit them in FireFox. Might be worth checking out if that is truly the only reason.
Firefox for me, and then edge if I have issues with it. I used edge on its own for a while but I got tired of that homepage it keeps reverting back to for some reason
Edge is also built on Chromium so it's basically a different Chrome skin. It does do a few things somewhat differently than Chrome. I'm not shilling for Edge as I just switched from Brave (another Chromium browser) to Firefox, and I keep edge "clean" in case I come across a website that doesn't want to work in Firefox or Chrome.
Just switched from Brave back to FF again myself. I want to use FF for everything but I can't. Mainly development. It keeps everything in cache even while in incognito. So when I make changes I don't see then even through fresh incognito sessions. Its very frustrating. Its been this way for forever. No issues with Chrome/Edge/Brave
I've not been fond of Chrome and Edge because of the spyware aspect, but Firefox lately has become so friggin' flakey since it's gone snap that it's almost unusable and now that there is a Linux version of Edge, it actually seems to operate quite smoothly.
@randint I do like PPA's so like most things there are things you don't like and things you like, and for what it's worth I have a Manjaro, Debian, Ubuntu, Centos7, Fedora, CentosStream, Mint, Zorin, and MxLinux machines, most of them virtual machines, but Ubuntu is my daily driver, Debian I use for kernel builds because Debian needs signed kernel packages and other distros are OK with them. The others I need if I'm working on something specific to Redhat or that particular distro.
@Zyansheep The main problem with switching versions of Firefox is if you go backwards, i.e., if the flatpack is even one point release behind the existing, it's very difficult to get the existing profile to work. I've compiled my own version which seemed like the ultimate solution, then the version doesn't change unless I decide it does, but wasn't able to read my old profile which is a problem.
I'm not sure why there's so much love for FF here. It sucks for web development - or rather there are some very important features that Firefox doesn't have that Chrome does have.
So when you're writing JavaScript, as I'm sure you know, it's bad form to add prototypes to primitives.
So let's say you have an Object, and it holds data about a person: hair color, eyes, weight, height, etc.
But if you want to make that object do something, like calculate the bmi, what do you do?
You could just go ahead and add ".calculateBmi" to Object, but that's bad form, right?
So you create a Person object, and it has weight, height and all the other stuff, then you can also assign it methods, like .calculateBmi, and that's great.
Well, in Chrome when you console.log the Person object, it's says "Person" and it lets you open it right up and look around to see what the height and weight are, and it's great.
However, In FF, it just says "Object." And you have to open it, then open a few other things underneath it to find out what type of object it is, and it's members and methods.
And its takes way longer to debug. And there's a few other, little things like that, that I can't think of. I'd love to use FF, but it's just not there yet.