I know you can play the game at chrome://dino, but it doesn’t evoke the same nostalgic feeling of a 10yr old me turning on aeroplane mode and spamming space bar to try and beat my brother’s high score. Good memories.

58 points

Here we go.

I use edge exclusively on Windows and have zero issues

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It’s just Chromium in disguise anyway.

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Indeed. It works fine. More efficient tham chrome.

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Are you happy with it? If so, that’s all that matters.

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38 points

I wouldn’t be very happy if my browser injected ads into webpages.

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16 points

It does that? I use Edge with ublock origin and have zero issues.

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Honestly speaking, I’ve used Edge on Windows and have had no issues. It’s a decent browser not taking privacy into consideration. The only thing pissing me off is supporting the Chromium monopoly.

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I’m very glad it works for you. Edge is a perfectly fine browser ever since they ditched their engine and copied Google’s Chrome with a coat of paint and a couple extensions baked in.

To be frank though, if Edge forking Chromium is the best the tech titan Microsoft can do, I’m genuinely disappointed in them, and I’d rather just use Chromium.

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I think it was a sensible decision to drop their own engine as nobody liked it anyway. Might as well go with a proven one and use your resources on stuff your customers want you to focus on. Since Nadella took over, Microsoft has been very well managed imo and they made a lot of right moves, like their move into cloud computing, embracing open source, integrating linux subsystem on windows, etc…

Their choice to ditch their IE/edge engine is a symptom of these better managerial choices.

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nobody liked it anyway

Hi, I am nobody ;-; I am a dirty casual not caring for privacy too much ( more than every day Mark, quite a lot less tha you folk ) but I absolutely loved Spartan Edge. It was quick, low memory usage and I absolutely loved it. Dropped chrome for it. And…then it was killed ;-;

Edit: I feel a lot of hate towards Edge comes from people connecting Edge to IE which…couldn’t stray further from truth.

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They haven’t forked it though. They’re actively contributing to Chromium so Chrome users benefit as well.

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You really didn’t need to say all that… xd

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Are you suggesting that the operating system doesn’t already do this?

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I am literally using windows anyway… what difference is the browser gonna do? All internet traffic travels through the OS before it hits the browser.

I know the linux comments are coming. But i cant use linux.

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I use edge for my work accounts on my work computers. It’s nice to have passwords auto fill and everything integrated through my windows sign on, and be “air gapped” from my personal stuff. I find experience to be basically identical to my home surfing on other chromium-based browsers.

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I do the same.

Chrome for home and Edge for work.

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3 points

Edge’s baked in coupon code finder is incredible.

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If it works for you, great!

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For real I don’t even mind Edge. I use it for work though and it’s been great for what I need it to do. Firefox is for everything else that’s not work related.

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Edge is actually better than Chrome. Don’t @ me. I still prefer Firefox to both and always have.

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I have to use it at work and it’s fine. It’s just chromium. I don’t get the hate. I do get the hate against internet explorer though.

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It is just Chromium and the hate most likely comes from it being made by Microsoft which is completely stupid because it’s not like Google is any better. In fact, I would say they are worse that Microsoft since their business is entirely reliant on selling user data. Microsoft at least has other avenues of income allowing them to not completely relying on selling your data to the highest bidder. Let me be clear on this, I am aware that they all sell data because that is the business they are in.

Also, Edge preforms better and does not phone home to google like other Chromium browser so…

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Edge UI is shit tbh

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Yeah too chonky for me to use it, I want as much space of the window to be taken by the website as much as possible

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2 points

Use Chocolatey and cut out the middleman :D

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I just got a minisforum UM790 which comes with windows. So until I get my new SSD I’m checking out Windows 11. One thing I was happy about was that I could create a local account with no issue. No Winget without an internet account so I’m using chocolatey like I did long ago.

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no winget without an internet account

Lmao wtf?

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I don’t know why but there’s some websites I frequently go to that either don’t work/load correctly with chrome or Firefox. I always made fun of my brother for using edge, but since I’ve started using it months ago I haven’t had any issues like I had before. Additionally, it seems to be better at managing memory because I’ve never seen it consume anywhere near the amount of ram that chrome does. Also, edge allows you to neatly put your tabs vertically on a side bar and allows you to group tabs without having to get 3rd party add-ons.

Making fun of edge is like making fun of internet explorer, but feature-wise it’s the same/better than other browsers. Props to Firefox but it’s just never worked well for me

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Out of the 3 browsers. Edge freezes most of the time for me, and with each update Microsoft inserts more uneeded & annoying bloatware and gotta figure out how to disable it.

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I agree. I use Firefox on my personal computer (running Gentoo) and use only Edge on my business notebook.

Edge was better before, now MS is already adding intrusive info screens and aggressive configurations…

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I just thank the gods that I can download and install Firefox via chocolatey.

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Chrome is the “One of my fuck ton of Firefox addons broke this site but I don’t want to waste time figuring out what one” browser.

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Tbh id just use ungoogled chromium for this, having the “pros” of chrome without the spying and spook

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Lol same. I also use it for time critical stuff where you don’t want to risk a site breaking, like when trying to get tickets for good seats on a concert when sale opens.

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Interestingly, a lotta sites that involve banking seem to make Firefox choke.

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7 points

This is why profiles are so useful. You can use one when the other breaks. I’ve got about 7 profiles each perfectly tuned to a specific niche.

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The meme was designed in LibreOffice. It worked surprisingly well. Only open source software was used for the creation of this meme.

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Chrome existed when you were 10, that makes me feel old. 😂

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Well, not exactly 10. Was born in 1999. Think I was maybe 14 or 15 when I first played it. Still feels like a long time has passed. Time flies when you’re enjoying life.

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Congratulations?

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LibreOffice Draw is genuinely quite good for this sort of thing. I’ve used it before to design a rough mockup of a webpage.

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My brother in christ, just run winget install firefox in command prompt and be done. Fuck chrome and edge.

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I started a clean Windows install a few weeks ago. Upon first boot, I immediately deleted the program files folder for Edge in an act of defiance to Microsoft. I then realized I had no browser. Had to ask my son to put a Firefox installer on a flash drive for me.

3 days later, I found out that winget exists.

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To really stick it to windows try out Linux, there’s plenty of comparable distributions with a windows feel. Else there are programs to disable and limit window’s telemetry and advertisements.

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For beginners, I would definitely recommend Zorin OS since it can run .exe files in case there’s no Linux version (.deb, flatpak, snap, etc.) of the software you’re looking to run. You can use Wine in any other distro, but I feel like Zorin OS makes it foolproof with a simple UI.

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