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'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microslop-is-heading-for-edge-major-browser-redesign-is-inspired-by-copilot-and-its-already-seriously-unpopular

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams 2027.

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      • danielton1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
        winget install Mozilla.Firefox
winget install Google.Chrome
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      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’ll just be called Microsoft Copilot.

        None of you are in an abusive relationship with the cruel mistress that is Windows and her accursed family and it shows.

        Personally I’m excited for when they rerelease regedit as Windows Copilot, MFS as (Co)Pilot, and Purble Place as Copilot Kids Demo.

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      • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        & Knuckles

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      • lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You forgot the (classic)

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      • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        with Teams for Friends and Family

        OMFG I’m crying

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      • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds like it comes with a free trial of Norton.

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    • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Slodge?

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microsoft Copilot App (zero indication it’s web)

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      • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).

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    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Internet Copilot One X.

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      • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Image

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.

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    • termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Edge Copilot 365

      They tack 365 on every product for no reason.

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Explorer

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.

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  • shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Tramort@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook

    Your tools actively make my job HARDER

    It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It’s vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that’s gone there’s no boon to using edge anymore and I’ll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.

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      • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Edge was fine

        When? it always sucked monkey balls… when MS finally gave up and turned Edge into basically chrome with an ugly theme, it was a leap forward… but they soon enshitified it so bad it quickly became a complete bloated mess

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      • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It does this from Outlook on android too. It’s horrid

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Step One: Install literally any other browser
    Step Two: Make new browser the default
    Step Three: Forget that Edge exists

    Peace.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
      1. Repeat step two forever when Microsoft decides there was a problem that can be solved by resetting your default browser.
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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You know what the true Step One is.
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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Step five:

        www.sordum.org/downloads/?st-edge-block

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    • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Step 1: Linux

      There are no other steps.

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    • Poach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Get upset with my old tools that decide to open in edge anyway (vestiges of IE). Or the bullshit microslop pulls and opens their links in edge rather than the default.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is that not what we already do?

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It certainly should be.

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard

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    • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.

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    • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

      If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Sir, a second slop has hit production”

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m really loving this new Microslop name.

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    • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ugh, that sucks. That domain could’ve been put to good satirical use.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.

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  • eletes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Get ready for:

    clicks hyperlink

    Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay

    Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.

    Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun

      Those absolute monsters.

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    • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.

      you forgot ads. It’s going to get injected with ads

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  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.

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    • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it’s not that bad…

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      • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “What is my purpose?” “You download Firefox”

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      • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, same.

        It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.

        But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome.

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who the fuck even uses Edge?

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    • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used it once to download Firefox.

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      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You will be judged harshly. Next time just use an install file on a USB, you know, like someone who isn’t a shit eating corporate shill guzzling the pendulous dong of microsoft, you piece of shit. I hate you and you deserve to be hated. Do better. Fuck.

        /s, just in case…

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      • dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I used it today to add a signature to a PDF.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Required to use edge by work.

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      • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Unfortunately, my workplace stuck on Windows due to specific software we utilize. We’re not bound to any browsers tho. I find it cool that our sysadmins use only Firefox. (Maybe not anymore with how Mozilla began to push AI in their browser.)

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.

        It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.

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    • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download Firefox on a brand new windows install.

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      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t used to be this guy, but… LINUX.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)

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    • merdaverse@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Copilot Firefox Downloader

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    • DronePirate@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Internet Copilot

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This post gave me the last push to defy my employer’s stupid policies and install Waterfox in lieu of Edge… thanks MicroSlop

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Remaining it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…

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    • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Windows -> MS copilotOS Subscription-> MS copilot 365 Chatbot -> MS copilot chat Office apps mished to one -> MS copilot work 365 Vs code -> Copilot Code Visual Studio -> copilot studio Azure -> MS Copilot Azure cloud EntraID -> copilot Access ActiveDirectory -> copilot Business manager Visio -> copilot processes Github -> copilot repo management (CoRaMa) Intune -> ms copilot manage Planner -> copilot task management plan Teams -> copilot communication manager Linkedin -> ms management ads copilot

      🧐 wonky enough?

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      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s Copilot all the way down.

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    • odama626@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      or, just copilot

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  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.

    “Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”

    Desperate move, desperate times.

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  • psyc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did the article really not include a screenshot of the interface?

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The corners are so rounded wtf. And those “Explore” containers look like the Humane AI pin which failed spectacularly.

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    • JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      when did the verge has a paywall?

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      • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Last year they started that up.

        They still have free articles, though, and they label them on the home page which are which.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn’t available.

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  • atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmm slop, edge, sludge

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  • pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People still use Internet Explorer - oh - I mean Edge?

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At my work we call the ‘granny browser’.

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  • headset@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.

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  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Edge? Is that the app I used to install LibreWolf?

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  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.

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  • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.

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  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now when people try to use Bing Copilot app to download a normal web browser, it can talk them out of it while introducing them to all the other Copilots and their apps

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a “dump program.” We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”

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  • D1re_W0lf@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115847256774525577

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  • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuckin dummies. lol

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  • Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Im curious how many lemmy users have edge as their default browser.

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