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26 points

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.

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18 points

I use edge for work every day, what popups?

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There’s the shopping popup that tries to find better deals or vouchers for products you’re looking at. It’s easy to turn off though.

Searching the settings for “notification” does show others - a feature called Discover and sidebar apps seem to be able to send notifications but I’ve never seen either.

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4 points

Same I’m a developer who uses edge as my daily driver and once setup right I love it

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I use arc on my mac and it’s nowhere near as nice as that, but I like the side tabs, the way it gets out of the way when I’m searching, and bing isn’t too bad; I’ve actually used it a few times. Once I found a customizable start page I haven’t looked back. Again, for work

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Once you set it up it’s fine, but on first opening you have to click through a bunch of menus (no, I don’t want to share data, no I don’t want to sync my account, and so on). In other browsers it’s a small popup in the corner which you can ignore, and just google what you wanted to google. In edge they’re fullscreen and you have to click no on each one.

Probably a rather unique problem because I regularly set up new machines, most people just go through it once and never see it again.

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You hit the nail right on its head! It’s pretty bad that there is no skip all option, and for some of them you have to manually uncheck before continuing.

I’m in the same situation as you where I often work on fresh virtual machines, and so I see this a lot too.

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May be worth building a default config to “install” for those setups; that’s saved me quite some time when configuring new/spare machines at work.

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