On the rare occasion I want to stream movies while on my PC at 1080p, because most online movie services will only stream 1080p to Edge. Some times Chrome will be allowed to stream 1080p but it’s pretty hit or miss in my experience. On another note, basically no streaming services will stream movies to you in 4k on a PC, I’ve also found most streaming apps on my phone won’t give me 4k either, you can only really get 4k streaming to a smart TV… it’s pretty ridiculous.
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Punchshark@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Who fucking uses edge?
SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Why let the streaming services tell you what you can or can’t watch videos on when you can just pirate everything?
SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Weirdly enough, I like buying movies to encourage people to keep making the kinds of movies I enjoy watching. I have some physical media, but often times you can’t find 4k versions of movies on physical media.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
you can buy a normal physical version then pirate the 4K file
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you rely so much on buying digital, be ready for a surprise later on down the line.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Edge wasn’t that bad honestly, I prefer it over chrome and use it when I need to test a site on that engine.
Punchshark@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Ive been firefox for a long while now
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Firefox has been my daily driver for a decade but that doesn’t really change anything that I said.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
x2
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
My workplace configures edge and chrome by default, were very office365 integrated and support chrome for some dates specific thing.
Now i am privileged with local admin powers so i have firefox. Still the integrations with edge run deep so i still have to use it lots of times. There are plans for copilot (which i find very dumb personall.
I will however never use chrome (anymore). Google was the second tech giant i dropped after facebook. They cannot redeem themselves for destroying the web (opinion). I rarely use search engines anymore but i rather use bing and bing sucks. (duckduck is also based on bing)
Sorry for the rant, but that was relieving.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 month ago
At least Bing pays you to use them, so don’t feel bad
thal3s@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My company has blocked all other web browsers, so lots of us sadly.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
probably wanted to monitor your every move, because the others one might shield your identity.
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Noobs who like to live on the edge
JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 1 month ago
People.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What a bunch of bastards.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Corps. All of the bells and whistles it has ties into the corps tenant which includes isolation of things like sync’d profiles, seamless sso, favorites, extensions, etc
Since it’s all under the tenant, all of that data is subject to the same privacy and policies the corp and MS agreed to, which makes it easy to work with other companies that have their own client policy requirements.
MS also makes it easy to control and harden all of their products including Edge using policy controls from a single UI.
You can’t do any of this with Firefox without extra effort.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Yeah the level of control Active Directory can have over Edge is unparalleled. The entire industry would move to a more secure browser and can be centrally managed with Active Directory if something existed.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Chrome has admx templates for AD that give you the same level of control.
greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I do when shitty devs don’t test in firefox and things are broken.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 month ago
90% of people and corporations are either using Edge or Chrome and since there’s essentially no difference between the two they are equally bad. We’re back to a browser mono-culture, just like in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.
Naich@lemmings.world 1 month ago
It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery. I haven’t seen a “best viewed in Chrome” for a decade or two.
Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Yet. I lived through the first browser war (Netscape Navigator vs Internet Explorer) and I’d estimate we’re right about the year 2000 ish. At that time both browsers were still active and reasonably well supported but it was clear that IE was going to win and somewhere in the IE6 / IE7 (2004 / 2006) time frame is when the real fuckery started. Since Edge started using Chromium in 2018(ish) we’re basically following the same schedule from two decades ago.
Sadly this is the same thing we said back then too and we (IT & the tech community) pushed hard to get people to leave IE and adopt Chrome.
Link@rentadrunk.org 1 month ago
Don’t forget Safari. On iOS it is the only usable browser currently with everything else just being a reskin of Safari. There are a lot of iOS users.
That is set to change but only in the European Union.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aka shit not compliant with web standards.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yup. Software developer here for a small company. We use a Windows. Chrome for testing applications and edge is just there. We are all in on Microsoft, server is C# .Net, running on azure with teams and outlook and office.
I do use Firefox though but I’m the only one out of 7.
chakan2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you know Wayne Gretzky and his brother hole the record for highest scoring brother duo in the NHL?
That comment reads the same way.