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A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

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[–] Concave1142 -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We are in the middle of rolling out a new SaaS solution at work that just works better in Edge. The amount of outrageous levels of anger and disgust we get from telling them to use Edge is stupid. Even telling users it is built on Chromium, just like Chrome, does nothing to dissuade their unfounded anger.

With some people it actually comes down to telling them, "if you don't use Edge, then I guess you need to start looking for another job that only uses Chrome".

I just don't get it.

[–] cm0002 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Edge can go fucking die, MS has lost all trust with me when it comes to them and Internet Browsers, I rip edge out of all my systems no matter what it might "break".

Maybe you should deploy solutions that are browser agnostic. That kind of shit is how we ended up with IE and its proprietary BS like ActiveX years ago. Clearly, people are forgetting history

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lol like management gives two shits about how browser agnostic a product is. business solutions look to address the perceived gap or need, not tailor to IT personnel feelings.

[–] cm0002 6 points 11 months ago

That's easy, just find [Some important person] who can't live without [Chrome/Firefox/Whatever] and bring them to your side lmao

Either way, it didn't sound like he was saying "I tried to push for better, but management shut me down" it sounded like he was happy to move to edge and "couldn't understand why people were angry"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Edge is awful and keeps popping up on windows.

[–] Heavybell 2 points 11 months ago

For better and worse, most people don't care what's under the hood. They care about the surface features. I.e. Chrome already has their bookmarks, the buttons are all in the same place, etc.

You and I know there's little difference but end users don't want to change, even if it's to something that would benefit them in the long run (i.e. Firefox)