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Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft's design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser.
The report highlights how Microsoft interrupts the installation process of Google Chrome on Windows devices, promoting the security and privacy benefits of Edge.
Mozilla calls for regulatory action to restore browser choice and competition across major platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I'm forced to use Edge for work it reminds me of old IE that your grandma installed the Ask toolbar in. Functions about the same too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Is there any material difference between Edge and Chrome? I'm forced to use either of them for work and as far as I can tell they perform the same

[–] cley_faye 2 points 9 months ago

With Edge, MS decided to re-implement some stuff through their own library. I don't have an exhaustive list, but one particular thing is that for a while, SubtleCrypto (used for various operations within JavaScript) was present, but some mandatory algorithms were not available in Edge while they worked fine everywhere else (and maybe even in the non-chromium based Edge, which I don't remember testing).

So, yes, there are differences beyond the integration of MS services. They are unlikely to matter to most people, but for dev it does reintroduce some weird quirks, as MS does.

[–] Killer 2 points 9 months ago

Edge can do 4k netflix

[–] Specal 1 points 9 months ago

Functionally they are the same. People that claim one is slower are just parroting what they've heard or experienced before

[–] Kethal 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are small annoying differences. The way it handles downloads is irritating. The settings menus are not well organized. There's a big stupid Bing button unless you remove it. It randomly fails to honor the option to open PDFs in an external program. It's nothing big, but if you're forced to use it for work, it's constantly annoying.