shrug any major benefits of google branded chromium over microsoft branded chromium are a moot point to me since google curb stomped fully functional adblocking.
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nil@piefed.ca 2 days ago
I had chances to peek into some of my friends’ laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge. MS’s strategy looks pretty stupid, but it’s actually working.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
People have always defaulted to the… default.
Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium’s bullshit… edge is perfectly fine.
Decq@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So how do you explain the chrome dominance? Did I miss something and the dominant os is chrome os this last decade ?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
[deleted]Decq@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not being aggressive, but your statement just makes no sense?
Either people pick the default and it’s mostly edge/safari, which as per your own statcounter source is clearly not the case. Or people are not as dumb as you make them out to be and pick the one that suits them.
The prompt was “I had chances to peek into some of my friends’ laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge”. Not “I did a survey of the entire world and Edge dominated”
How is this even relevant? If you’re make a statement about people in general, it doesn’t matter which people specifically are mentioned.
But thanks for the humoring!
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I prefer Edge of Chrome, but I don’t like either. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.
aramis87@fedia.io 2 days ago
Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’m not the person you were replying to, but I enjoy Vivaldi’s tab grouping and window splitting features, specifically. The fact that they haven’t been actively trying to shove AI down my throat is also a plus.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own feduverse instances.
After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s working because a of people are pretty stupid.
BossDj@piefed.social 2 days ago
And I’m pretty sure our heavy capitalist model is the main reason
nullroot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As far as chromium based browsers go, edge is actually one of the best. I have a portable degoogled chromium I keep locked in a vault myself, but that’s only because I ripped edge out of windows. If I wasn’t the type of person that got irrationally furious about edge running in the background using up system resources doing whatever the fuck windows was having to do, I would just use edge when I needed a chromium browser.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I see no reason to use chrome over edge. I’m a Firefox guy these days, but if I have to use a chromium browser, I’m using edge.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 days ago
Why not just plain chromium?
Eldritch@piefed.world 2 days ago
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it’s a whole extra step.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Same shit, different color logo.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Edge is already installed for the half dozen times a year I need to specifically use a chromium-based browser.
naught@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Might I suggest vivaldi