this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023

-11 points (35.1% liked)

Unpopular Opinion

6354 readers

11 users here now

Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!

How voting works:

Vote the opposite of the norm.

If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.

Guidelines:

Tag your post, if possible (not required)

If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].

Rules:

1. NO POLITICS

Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.

2. Be civil.

Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.

5. No trolling.

This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

-11

Microsoft Edge is worthwhile in 2023 (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 1 year ago by UnlikelyAlternative to c/unpopularopinion

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Jesus Christ, Edge is an ACTUALLY GOOD WEB BROWSER. It's based on Chromium, so there's no usable difference, plus you can access https://passwords.google.com in Edge with no issue. Most of the sites are tested on Google Chrome first, so they'll be just as well-optimised for Microsoft Edge with no fuss whatsoever, 'sides from Google's nagging, which is just as annoying, imo

all 12 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really. That's your pitch. It's like chrome. Awesome...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Better than IE at least.

Firefox > Chrome > Edge > IE

[–] UnlikelyAlternative -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Since users already have Chrome installed, even if it's "Google Chrome at home", it's still solid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You should be flogged with a herring imho

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Firefox users are literally screaming right now. This isn't even a unpopular opinion. This is a garbage opinion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Confirming i am a firefox user and came here to scream

[–] Magister 4 points 1 year ago

I only have Edge to use Teams in it, because it does not 100% work in Firefox (I'm in Linux).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint: When I accidentally run edge, it leaves a search box on my desktop and an icon in the system tray. It got crappier.

[–] ttmrichter 3 points 1 year ago

Edge would be fine if it weren't spyware and nagware. In functionality it's ... a web browser. In privacy it's a horror. In its proclivity to nag you to perdition its UX is splatterpunk.

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

Edge is great for Enterprise customers.

All those privacy issues turn into benefits as it falls into your tenant and is covered by your existing contracts and encryption keys.

Profile and password sync becomes useful.

Byod is so much easier when their edge browser supports app management configurations.

The home page and Bing search displays internal results in addition to external through seamless Federated search.

There’s a lot more simple little things that add up to an overall huge improvement over trying to use chrome or Firefox.