I accidentally opened edge yesterday and it literally wouldn’t let me close out of it until I interacted with it in some way. I force shut that bitch down.
Like all MS products today, it’s actually really good after wasting an hour unchecking all the hidden options that make it unbearable spyware.
And then check peridoically for new options that you have to turn off…
And the old settings that have been mysteriously switched back on…
And it still ends up being worse than its FOSS competitor…
No MS product I have interacted with in the last couple years I would consider good, even ignoring the spyware.
Since Shai Halud swallowed up Rita and spit her out (as evidenced by this 1000% true photo of her crawling out of a sand worm) does she get the same powers as Ragnar has in that new Dune show?
Because if she does, the Power Rangers are turbo fucked.
Fun that you say “turbo fucked” when Turbo was 1.- the first season without Rita in a villain role and 2.- the first seasons where the Rangers canonically lost.
i loled
Windows: “Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser.”
User: “No Thank you Windows, please use app X”
Windows: “I got you fam, app X for PDFs from now on”
…later…
Windows: “Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser.”
So Linus, et al are the power rangers
It’s never accidental…
You click a link in an MS app and it launches Edge regardless of the default browser setting, then plays it off as a “feature”.
Every. Fucking. Time.
I can hear this meme…
Edge after you install a security update:
“I imported all your data and made myself the default”
Haters gonna hate. But I’ve been using Edge for a year now as my main browser and I prefer it over Google’s browser. Yes, it was built on the Chromium open-source project. But the end result is what I was after. Something that wasn’t just Google’s ‘X.’ Industry competition is very much needed.
I did a fresh install of windows 11 and I opened edge the first time only to crash after a second because it couldn’t handle the fact that I wasn’t signed into a Microsoft account.
It crashed immediately every successive attempt to open it.
After the 15th try (mostly for my own amusement) I downloaded Firefox from the windows store so that there’d be a functional browser in the VM I had just set up for someone to use to run essentially the last scamware app he still needs for hopefully not much longer (cough intuit cough)
I think you can do winget install Mozilla.Firefox?
Cool. Let’s force it on everyone else then. Go competition!
You can’t say that on lemmy man it’s illegal.
If that’s illegal, I’m sure saying that I don’t use Linux nor have I ever used Linux, to be highly illegal.
It’s been an hour, how is this man still alive /s
Travel time
Just like the United Healthcare CEO assassin… they haven’t found me yet.
but then you wouldn’t know that Edge runs perfectly well on Linux too lol I use Edge every day on Linux without issue but only for work related stuff
Vs Chrome? Naw. Everyone’s allowed their opinion, but those who prefer Edge usually haven’t actually used modern Firefox, especially with the right extensions. I never install it without uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic…
I honestly can’t remember a time where I preferred Chrome over Firefox.
I had never heard of Consent-O-Matic. It works for Firefox on Android too! I couldn’t install it fast enough! Thanks for that! :D
I don’t know why I don’t hear much about it, but they made all extensions work with Firefox mobile about a year ago! I didn’t even use Firefox on my phone until then…
Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.
completely agree. i think a lot of people (myself included) will probably never give edge a fair chance because of how insidious and annoying microsoft has been about trying to get people to use it. i don’t really hate edge as a browser (i’ve never really tried it), but i do hate the feeling of the browser being forced upon me
Frustrating the only browser you can get a compliance search in m365 downloaded with. So I have to open it more often than I want.
Would not have happened with Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have it happen with Firefox when I ment to open Brave (don’t crusifie me)
If you’re on Windows then it’s the best Chromium browser available
What makes you prefer it to say Brave? Last time I used Edge it was so unusable that I could barely browse the web without it crashing etc
It’s faster, and it’s already there
But I would never use Brave to begin with because of their monetization/adblocking
That’s like the best-tasting pile of human excrement.
HOLY AI UPSCALE WITH CLARITY, BATMAN!!
So are the other browsers Power Rangers?
Well at least Chrome is kinda multicolor…
Firefox tho… I can’t recall the last season that had a mammal ranger (it’s usually dinosaurs or vehicles), let alone an orange Ranger.
It’s one of the “weird rangers”, like the white, green, or purple ranger.
There’s a purple ranger?
Bulk is the purple ranger in the comics.
