Edge started itself on boot after a recent Windows update. It even had a little pop-up about how “helpful” it was to have it start right when my computer turns on so I can “get to browsing” faster. It’s never been set as my default. Uhg.
Microsoft Edge could use a win
Submitted 1 year ago by ZeroCool@feddit.ch to programmer_humor@programming.dev
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TheSambassador@lemmy.world 1 year ago
zaph@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Make sure you go into the settings and turn everything off. It’ll run in the background and do God knows what even though you’ve turned off startup.
CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
Run this after every update, specifically the tweak that uninstalls Edge. Makes things a lot easier. It also gives you the option to delay feature updates by two years and only install security updates on time.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Well, I switched to Edge for work with the latest Chrome update (since internal apps were Chromium only), and was pleasantly surprised.
Safari and Firefox for personal use though, and nothing compelling to make me change that.
Pyro@programming.dev 1 year ago
The performance is pretty on-par with other major browsers now, but it is the obscene amount of popups built into the browser that irritates me.
WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
I use edge for work every day, what popups?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 year ago
Maybe look at Bromite? Open Source Chromium browser where you don’t need to disable anything
neme@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Bromite has not been updated since January.
One of the old Bromite contributors forked it: github.com/uazo/cromite
XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Mulch to
odium@programming.dev 1 year ago
Same, I’m only allowed to use either Chrome or Edge on my work laptop, so I chose Edge.
Librewolf on my personal laptop and Firefox on mobile tho.
TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Bonus for Librewolf!
I love Firefox… But the listicle ads are seriously tacky and annoying. I do not want Pocket. And I do not want Pocket randomly re-enabled after a set of updates.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If you need to use Chromium, just use Ungoogled-Chromium or Brave. But Firefox/LibreWolf will always be superior.
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Don’t worry Gill it will set itself back as default next Tuesday
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’ve never had that happen. Either the US version of Windows is fucked, or people are bullshitting hard.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m in the US and have never ran into half of the stuff people say MS forces on them on a daily basis.
bonn2@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had it happen once after a windows update, it has put a shortcut on my desktop enough times that I wrote a script to check for and delete them whenever it does.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What is does do way too often is make itself my default PDF viewer. I’ve got Adobe Acrobat Pro and Bluebeam. I have zero reason to ever want to see a PDF in Edge.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m still on 10, but half the shit I see people complain about with Windows I’ve never experienced personally. Maybe I’m just lucky? Maybe I just read? I don’t know, but I’m not having the same experience as a lot of people on here.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
From time to time when you update windows it’ll show you a welcoming setup again similar to the first time you logged in. In that process it will try to convince you to setup some Microsoft stuff on your pc, including changing default apps, but it shouldn’t do it on its own.
But sometimes it does. It happened once for me this year.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
There was a while there where it would default to Edge for PDFs and as a web browser after a update. Quite annoying for a factory full of PCs that I wanted to use Chrome and Adobe Reader instead.
I tried Edge for a bit but stuck with chrome. Recently I’ve gone back to Firefox but I’ve not had one of those major updates yet that even tries to get me to log into Microsoft as a log in so it will be interesting when that happens again if Edge shows up as the default.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This joke was funny when Chrome was superior, but now Edge is actually better.
darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
maybe, but they are both proprietry spyware and chromium based. firefox is better than both
Beanie@programming.dev 1 year ago
Mozilla isn’t exactly perfect either
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I agree. But sometimes your pages won’t load with Firefox. For you and me it’s great. We can get around it. For your parents and grandma’s, it’s a nightmare.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edge is my daily driver and has been for a couple of years. Seems faster than Chrome, but maybe that’s just my perception.
I think these haters are hating because Microsoft. Or, they’re too ignorant to realize Edge is Chrome under the hood.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I wouldn’t have a problem with Edge if it wasn’t always running in the background, it’s quite spooky. Not to talk about when it gives me the popups to not change the browser, it is my computer and I will do what I want with it
joneskind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not sure if it really could be faster than Chrome since they share the same web renderer (chromium) but Edge is definitely better optimised than Chrome when it comes to memory usage since MS has a better understanding of how its own OS works on a lower system level.
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We use Edge in our company for the integration since off of our users are on 365.
On some hold outs that kept trying to cling on to Chrome, I just changed the beachball shortcut on their desktop to open Edge instead. None of them have noticed the change over a year later.
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox is the way to go
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m a WEB UX designer that helps with testing new pages and Firefox sometimes doesn’t render things that all the other browsers can.
Firefox is great for privacy but shit is buggy.
jim_stark@programming.dev 1 year ago
Edge is stuff tacked on Chrome. How can it be better?!
melooone@feddit.de 1 year ago
Isn’t chrome also based on chromium? I would argue they are equally bad, because both are proprietary.
heftig@beehaw.org 1 year ago
When I see the current version of Edge I’m reminded of those bloatware-packed OEM Windows preinstalls adding useless toolbars to Internet Explorer, except this time it’s a sidebar.
I’m disappointed, and when asked by people I recommend replacing Edge. With Firefox, if preferable, but even Chrome is better.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s like saying Mac OS is just a Linux distro. It’s similar but actually pretty different when it comes to how it manages its memory.
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Finally someone talking sense.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s funny how nobody talks shit about Apple.
aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Y’all I dislike forced browser adoption as much as the next guy.
And I’ve been using Firefox for years and years and years now.
But, I’m forced to use edge for work. And, as a browser purely, none of the anti-trust baggage attached…
It’s really not too bad. A lot of things work just fine. And sometimes, if I’m having weird performance on a website on a personal device, loading the same URL in edge has resulted in improved/expected functionality of the website
grumpyoldgit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, when I have used Edge it’s been absolutely fine. Probably better than Chrome. I’d likely be quite happy to use it most of the time if it wasn’t for the fact that Microsoft are so intent on forcing me to do so.
I mostly use Vivaldi now which I think is by far the best of the Chromium-based browsers.
explodicle@local106.com 1 year ago
IE was like that for a while too. Never again.
mnoom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
with the amount of updates I think Edge is better than chrome now I still use firefox
PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edge isn’t terrible at all. That’s why it’s such a risk to browser diversity and competition
soviettaters@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I continue to use Firefox because I started using it a while ago and would rather not switch. I have to use Edge for school and it’s legitimately equal to Firefox in many ways. With Bing AI added, Edge blows Firefox out of the water.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 year ago
The only reason Bing AI only works on Edge is because Bing AI specifically checks for edge. There was an extension that made it work on Firefox by simply lying about the browser, but Microsoft DMCA’d the developer.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yeah the problem with memes like this is (according to market share) that there are people that switch from Edge to Chrome and think they are actually using a better product
jack@monero.town 1 year ago
Change your job
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edge was a win when it first came out. It had its own rendering engine, was fast and svelte.
Now it’s just another bloated Chrome clone overstuffed with privacy-invading marketing features.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Same story every time. Something good turns into shit because they need to add marketing.
I’m shocked Microsoft hasnt fucked up VS Code yet.
SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh now you’ve gone and jinxed it.
Toast@feddit.de 1 year ago
Nah the future for VS Code looks dark imo. They own VS Code, Github, NPM and Copilot and everything they touch turns into shit.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It turned bad because a bunch of users refused to use it because they remembered never updating past IE8 and made jokes about it lagging behind the competition
VS Code is the fucked up version of Code OSS
words_number@programming.dev 1 year ago
Edge is pretty good…
…for downloading Firefox.
I wouldn’t even use a proprietary browser if they’d pay me for it. Let alone a chromium based one.
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You don’t even need a browser
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Windows put a full page ad for windows 11 before my computer started, I’m never upgrading. Hope to God Linux gaming gets better by 2025
phuntis@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
linux gaming is basically there at this point proton can run most games flawlessly unless you wanna play games with hyper aggressive drm or anticheat it mostly “just works”
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It needs a larger user base before companies will make the native version for it
By not switching you play in to a self fulfilling prophecy
utopiah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Genuinely no idea how Linux gaming could be better. I’ve been playing on desktop and Steam Deck for years, both “flat” games and VR games and it just works. Sure I don’t try literally everything but with ProtonDB I’m confident it will work, or not, and decide accordingly. Obviously not all games work on Linux but definitely more quality games that I have time for. For me it just works, I spend at least 99% of my time gaming on Linux actually gaming, in fact I can’t even remember when is the last time I tinkered. I don’t even have problems with GPU drivers despite tinkering with containers with machine learning. I’m not trying to say nobody have problems or dismiss problems people my have, just sharing my experience.
Cihta@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honest question - what is the current problem(s) in Linux gaming? And I don’t mean that the way it sounds, I just haven’t done it in a long long time. I mean back then it had to have a linux specific version and you had to deal with X11 mouse input.
Now with Wayland and things like steamdeck existing I’m surprised it’s not more viable.
I’m sure it’s a long list but what are the main factors? Just a curiosity. Unfortunately I just don’t get to play games these days. Still GPU and sound driver issues? Publishers refusing to take the extra steps to make a multi platform engine work on it? Too many unknowns based on flavor of Linux installed?
IronTalon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I switched back in 2019. It was pretty good then and it’s almost seamless now. Hell EAC works now and I can play Squad without any hiccups
CeeBee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Linux gaming is even better than Windows in many ways now
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or just Linux, then you won’t ever be asked again
Mchugho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it just me or is edge actually a decent browser? It’s not like the dark internet explorer times.
gilbert31@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox FTW.
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Gee Bing. You really are pathetic. Respect yourself dude.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 year ago
I really liked Edge like a year or two ago. It seems they are trying to destroy it as fast as possible.
JoeHill@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I switched from Chrome to Edge and initially was really impressed. But then Microsoft had to go and Bing it all up. So now it’s back to Firefox after a 15 year hiatus.
junezephier@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Sorry Gil, it’s still chromium ;c
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How long is Microsoft going to play this game? We don’t want your browser and we didn’t want it since Netscape. No one trusts you.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck no, I’m not particularly a fan of how it forces itself on you like Brock Turner (the rapist).
It can go and join IE and whatever pit of hell we threw IE in
If you wanna say that Chrome is trash and people would use Firefox, Opera, Safari or whatever else is currently trending among privacy focused people that I can agree with (Even if I personally won’t make the switch)
But Edge is NOT the answer, Edge is NEVER the answer. At this point I’m starting to wonder if all these Edge people in here are being paid by MS
TheKingBee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bing chat has saved edge and bing search for me, it just works. I ask it a random question, like how many spiders you’d have to eat to have eaten a pound of them and it just tells me and shows the work. I don’t need to look up how much a spider weights and then do math myself, it just does it.
I have a lot of stupid questions and it has answers without me needing to dig through bullshit to find what I need.
4rs3n1k@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I’ve been using Edge for 2 years now. No problems whatsoever ever. You can stop begging MS.
tooclose104@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The weirder thing is I was replacing a users desktop the other day and updating default apps. Edge did its usual “pleas love me” bit but then so did Windows Mail as I was changing it to Outlook 365 of all things…
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People might have used it if MS didn’t try cramming it down peoples’ throats, and if they didn’t add so much b
ling.verdantbanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
edge uses half or less of the system resources versus firefox with twice as many tabs open even on linux
Granixo@feddit.cl 1 year ago
I do use Edge as ny min browser, for now.
Vipsu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like good opportunity for US and Europe to whip out some fines over Anticompetitive practices. With Microsoft sort of being repeat offender the fines should reflect that.
Honestly with Edge being not too bad alternative for Chrome this sort of shady behavior from Microsoft doesn’t do it any good at least in my eyes.
simin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
here i go…strangely enough i used edge for a while and did not switch back
chk232@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edge is pretty good now imo
Sasori323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Idk, I really like Edge. It just has bad reputation due to Internet Explorer… It is actually very good imo.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could it though?
kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Use an ad-filled browser controlled by a megacorp, with an engine built by another megacorp?
Hmmm, I dunno
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even better. After you’ve explicitly triggered the default MS is like “have you tried the all new megacorp spyware? It’s not actually new, but identical to the spyware we already installed and absolutely nothing has changed in the last 10 seconds since you made the decision, but we figured we’d throw another churn barrier at you because fuck you; we own your OS. You’re our product now bitch, and that’s all you’ll ever be”
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sad but true
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 year ago
Don’t forget the OS built by a megacorp snorkeling up all your data anyways
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
…that they ask you to actually pay for the privilege. Because remember, windows isn’t actually free (and you pay for it if you buy a pre-built).
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
At least I can mostly opt out there. Or use Linux
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Well, on the other hand, said megacorp finances the only other engine (Blink being a fork of Webkit), so they don’t have to bother with monopoly restrictions.
Current web is broken.
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I realize this, but technically Mozilla is still an independent entity. They also fight some Google attempts at Web DRM, so it’s still healthy condition
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I hope to see servo on my device next to Firefox some day.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
aren’t they the same megacorp
LPThinker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think they’re referring to the fact that Edge runs on the Chromium engine which, as the name implies, is a Google product.