MojoKid writes:
The Internet and web browsers are an ever changing congruous mass of standards and design. Browser development is a delicate balance between features, security, compatibility and performance. However, although each browser has its own catchy name, some of them share a common web engine. Regardless, if you are in a business environment that's rolling out Windows 10, and the only browsers you have access to are Microsoft Edge or IE — go with Edge. It's the better browser of the two by far (security not withstanding). If you do have a choice, then there might better options to consider, depending on your use case. The performance differences between browsers currently are less significant than one might think. If you exclude IE, most browsers perform within 10-20% of each other, depending on the test. For web standards compliance like HTML5, Blink browsers (Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi) still have the upper-hand, even beating the rather vocal and former web-standards champion, Mozilla. Edge seems to trail all others in this area even though it's often the fastest in various tests.
Cross-platform
By aaaaaaargh!
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2015-Oct-17 17:58
• Score: 5, Insightful
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The only browser I would ever use is cross platform. Like any other software I use, including programming languages. Anything else would be impractical and is too 90s.
Re:Cross-platform
By supremebob
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2015-Oct-17 18:23
• Score: 5, Interesting
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Yeah... one of the reasons I like Chrome so much is that my bookmarks are updated automatically on my Windows Desktop PC, Mac Laptop, Android Tablet, and iPhone. I doubt that I'll be able to pull off that stunt with Edge for awhile.
Re:Good, but man the fonts
By cbhacking
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2015-Oct-17 18:26
• Score: 4, Informative
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Edge is shit for anything other than its dev tools or its rendering engine, though (and the latter still needs work, as TFA notes). No support for many of the things that any modern browser is expected to have, like:
* No ad or tracking blocking (something IE has had, built in, since version 9)
* No way to block Flash (built into IE in two different ways, ActiveX filter and site whitelisting for ActiveX), much less to block JavaScript
* No extension support of any kind
* Barely any cookie filtering (all, none, or no-third-party are the only options)
* No "restore last session" (only possible if you set it to *always* restore the last session)
* No RSS support
* No useful context options (aside from Inspect Element) like "search this" or "translate this"
* No user control over features like TLS versions image placeholders, etc.
* No support for tab thumbnails (was in IE as "Quick Tabs" from v7 to v10, and on taskbar starting with Win7)
* No tab grouping or ability to set Ctrl+Tab to switch in last-used order
* ...
It's an overgrown phone browser. It's not even close to suitable for PC usage.
Now, with that said, you can get IE to run with Edge's engine (EdgeHtml), at least on Win10 Enterprise. That combo works pretty well. A few minor bugs, but you get the better rendering engine combined with the features of an actual PC web browser.
standards matter more than miliseconds
By Gravis Zero
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2015-Oct-17 18:34
• Score: 5, Insightful
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if you want to render a webpage the fastest: cut corners (standards be damned!)
if you want to render a webpage properly: don't use a microsoft product
Re:Try Edge on the Insider Preview Build
By davester666
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2015-Oct-17 19:20
• Score: 5, Insightful
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What exactly is "amazing" about a multi-billion dollar, multinational software developer coding up a web browser?
That they did it?
That it runs?
That significant parts of it are hard-coded into the OS, again?
That it's more standards compliant that the previous version, even though it's the first version?
That it works pretty good for a v1, given that normally Microsoft needs 3 major versions to get to that state?
That the quality software known as Flash is BUILT INTO it?