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Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again / Microsoft has a history of tricks to get you to use Edge, and the latest one targets Chrome users once again (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 days ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology
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Microsoft clearly isn’t bothered that it’s automatically starting up Edge on people’s PC and then trying to trick them into importing their Chrome data. That’s not too surprising though since Microsoft has been pulling tricks like this for more than four years now.

Microsoft’s behavior here makes many people distrust Edge, Windows 11, and even the company’s AI efforts.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As someone that often ends up doing a lot of web development, Safari is the rough modern equivalent of Internet Explorer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How so?

I use Firefox most of the time, but if I really need to stretch the battery life I’ll use Safari. It seems significantly faster and more power efficient than anything else I’ve used. If it had better plugin support, it’d be my daily driver. Can’t say I’ve ever had issues with it rendering a page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Orion is a pretty sick browser letting you run Chrome and Firefox extensions in a WebKit browser. It looks/feels very close to Safari, and though having those extensions sounds super glitchy it’s actually very well-polished.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m a web developer but I absolutely love Safari. I seriously don’t understand the hate. From an end-user perspective it’s sooo much less clunky too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Safari is the only modern browser that still has a broken WebGL implementation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

When does that become relevant? I mainly develop web applications so I’ve never directly worked with WebGL.