The problem isn't Edge in itself. It is good if there are many browsers. But when Javascript became more than just a play thing, all of a sudden browser slowly moved to chromium as an engine. There used to be Opera, IE, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Chrome with each their own browser engine. Now there is only Chromium/Blink, Safari and Firefox left. Google is way too powerful with their marketshare. They constantly try to implement features that are bad for users.

Please use Firefox if you can!

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Now there is only Chromium/Blink, Safari/WebKit and Firefox/Gecko left.

{browser}/{browser_engine}

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know. I mixed engines and browsers. I was too lazy to find out the engine names of opera, edge and ie.

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 3 points 1 year ago

Opera had Presto.

Edge used EdgeHTML.

IE used Trident/MSHTML.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New engines are in test stage, servo, ladybird etc.

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 1 points 1 year ago

The problem is that it will take ages for them to get any adoption in a new browser. Firefox used to be a big player and then chrome came along. Now most of the people don't even try Firefox anymore. I still hear a lot of "Firefox is slow" sentiment even though it isn't.

[–] Captain_Baka@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least at home and on mobile I absolutely do o7

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I've started using Firefox at work, too. Unfortunately, I still have to use a lot of the Google sites at work, but they all work flawlessly within Firefox and uBO.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Edge at work and it's a really decent browser. It's not Internet Explorer it's basically Chrome with different tracking software lol

Obviously I use Firefox personally. But it's actually decent.

[–] Captain_Baka@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also use it at work and it really sucks. I also have Chrome on my work computer, but for everything work-related I have to use Edge. Like E-Mails and Sharepoint-Stuff. Edge's startup time is at least 4 times Chrome's startup time. Sites load extremely slow directly compared to Chrome. No Adblockers. I really don't like this.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also use it at work and it really sucks. I also have Chrome on my work computer, but for everything work-related I have to use Edge. Like E-Mails and Sharepoint-Stuff.

That's a decision your IT department made. I use Firefox with all of that at work.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can confirm. I also have to use Sharepoint with certain groups, and it works just fine. The web interface for Outlook works just fine as well.

I also have to use Google at work, and everything I've used works within Firefox.

I think it's important to point this out because a lot of people seem to be laboring under the misconception that the sites they use will break in Firefox. The only sites I've found that don't work are things like Bing AI, which work fine if you switch the user agent header.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Edge isn't IE, it's reskinned Chromium.