Isn’t Edge also chromium?
Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
why go after microsoft.
Go after fucking google.
Chromium is the plague, not Edge.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yes, and its a nasty story thats all unofficial cause no one is gonna go on the record.
but the short of it is, Edge had its own browser engine, but google kept making changes to youtube and other sides that broke its performance and made it run like dogshit, while leaving chromium based browsers alone.
after many instances of sabotage > microsoft workaround > google sabotage> microsoft workaround. Microsoft finally gave up and remade Edge as a chromium based browser.
Wrench@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
So Google establishing a now industry standard of evergreen versioning so that they could iterate relatively quickly on features, rather than have to maintain compatibility with years old versions, and iterating quickly on their own major websites - is a bad thing?
Right.
Yeah, let’s go back to having to maintain terrible legacy browsers that behaved completely differently for the rest of time.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
ah yes, the google white knights.
because thats what a billion dollar company that threatens to seize control of the internet needs.
h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
On “features” they would like to see. Most of the time features that make it difficult to block tracking and keep their advertising business going. The web is all about communication standards between different programs and this includes the joint adoption of new standards and respect for the existing standards.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s possible to go after both. M$ has some fucked up practices that trick the user into using edge that shouldn’t be okay
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 6 minutes ago
It’s possible to. Are they? Correct me if I’m wrong, but they’re not. They’re going after Microsoft and not Google.
Not that it makes any difference since Edge is just reskinned Chrome now anyway. If it was still it’s own thing I’d be rooting for Microsoft, at least up until they start to become bigger, then I’d turn on them.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I went to the widgets pane on my w11 laptop once, clicked an article and to my horror, all of my data had been synced from chrome to edge, including passwords, history, open tabs, extensions, pretty much everything.
I even went as far as to report it to the ACCC (the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) since I’ve never seen it from other browsers, and that I found it pervy the fact they did it without consent, although I doubt the ACCC would be enough to change this shitty practice, and others like it.
They’re not even trying to trick the user anymore, they’re forcing them.
JWBananas@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You have to opt into that behavior. It prompts you on first launch
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Makes you wonder if these companies bringing the complaint are getting kickbacks from Google. Free search rank boosting for their respective companies comes to mind.