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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cujo@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious... does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn't ever considered. Including one which means I'll have to install Edge, so... thanks, I guess. 😂

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[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (13 children)

It has a slightly better privacy policy compared to google chrome while fully supporting progressive web apps on Linux. Edge is also very much so more efficient in terms of system resource utilization. It also has high quality native built in translation which I need. All of this means I use Edge as my PWA browser.

Chromium lacks native translation support. Firefox PWA support is not good. Edge was the least bad option for me. 🤷‍♀️

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Brave has PWAs, but I'm not sure about the translation support

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

True. But brave is run by a crypto advertising company. Their business model is advertising and crypto tokens. I trust crypto bros less than I trust Microsoft.

[–] solomoncaygnuyou@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I trust crypto bros less than I trust Microsoft.

Why trust either? #firefox

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 10 points 1 year ago

He literally explained why he doesn't use Firefox.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because firefox’s PWA behavior is not as I wish..

What I wish is a firefox fork dedicated to PWA. It should be Privacy first and as intuitive to use as it can. Best would be, if it was designed like an app store.

Called PWApp-sore, I guess

Sadly I have no time to (learn) develop(ing)

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