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Microsoft Edge is actually good lmao (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Sheeple@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows bad, give Internet points!

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Edge browser bad, give Internet points!

[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

God damn kids these days.

Internet Explorer was bad, give me internet points.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bring back NSAPI plugins!

I miss visiting random dubious websites, only for a command prompt to pop up and disappear, and then sudden CPU and network spikes as it does god knows what...

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bring back anti-trust lawsuits, while we're on the topic of cool things that aren't done anymore

[–] e0qdk@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They are! There are US antitrust cases going on right now against Google (x2), Amazon, and Meta/Facebook. Some links that may be of interest:

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) -- trial began on September 12, 2023 (this case regards search, I think)
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) -- complaint PDF (this is a second case against Google)
FTC v. Facebook

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

MOAR!

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I'm an edgy corporate fuckboy, give Internet points!

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Firefox good, Steam deck good, unity bad!

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The funny thing is: Edge isn't actually a bad browser. It's basically Chrome with custom Microsoft UI. So it behaves like pretty much all other browsers except Firefox.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not only UI, but also trackers by microsoft. Btw no I wouldnt say chrome is a good one either

[–] Xelnoc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

chrome with microsoft ui

hence bad

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Except they force side buttons and other crap onto it.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just started it for you, since I'm on my work device which runs Windows.

What exactly do you mean? Looks like a plain browser window to me.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had to disable some outlook sync feature a while ago that opened on every new tab, otherwise it's been fine.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yep. It is very integrated into the OS. Since it is the OS default browser released by the same company as the OS this is no surprise.

As a tech-savvy user one can configure it to their use case. Everyone else can simply use it as it is and they will be fine most of the time.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can disable those

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 11 months ago

I know, but it's like all windows crapware, "you can disable them" yeah that sucks because from time to time it's Kazoing back after a reboot...