Chromium Edge

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

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Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"It has been discovered that the man who was lost in thought was not a
church member." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And
Other Essays_]

On 8/11/2020 9:53 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.


It doesn't matter to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just as bad as
the old Edge, and I never use it unless some site doesn't work in FireFox.



--
Ken

Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

You could've downloaded it yourself to install the Chromium-based Edge.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

According to web.archive.org, Microsoft has offered the "new" Edge since
mid-January 2020.

Of course, you could install Google's Chrome. I've had it for awhile as
my secondary web browser. Firefox is my primary web browser.

I don't understand why you can't read simple message about these newsgroups. You can either plonk my posts and move on or you can start using Thunderbird with HTML enabled. HTML is a requirement to read my posts.

https://i.imgur.com/XZuOxLp.jpg


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With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:


I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.


It doesn't matter to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just as bad as
the old Edge, and I never use it unless some site doesn't work in FireFox.

it's chrome, without any of the google tracking bits.

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:21:39 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

You could've downloaded it yourself to install the Chromium-based Edge.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

According to web.archive.org, Microsoft has offered the "new" Edge since
mid-January 2020.

Of course, you could install Google's Chrome. I've had it for awhile as
my secondary web browser. Firefox is my primary web browser.

You can install all three Microsoft browsers side by side simultaneously:
https://i.postimg.cc/PrcV1pXF/browser06.jpg

o Tutorial to set up 3 Microsoft web browsers (Edge UWB, new Edge,
& Internet Explorer) to work concurrently coexisting peacefully
even after subsequent Windows Updates
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.microsoft.windows/hUAf1lnum3E

And why bother with Google Chrome, IMHO, when SRWare Iron (and likely
others) exist which are the same (AFAIK) but without the spyware (AFAIK)?
o Do we have (yet) an actionable list of all free Windows & Linux
web browsers (and their main purpose)?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.freeware/krNaXA-YEbw
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On 11 Aug 2020, Mark Lloyd wrote
(in article ):

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

not nearly long enough.

I use FF and turned off everything Edge. Again.

On 8/11/20 12:34 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On 8/11/2020 9:53 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.


It doesn't matter to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just as bad as
the old Edge, and I never use it unless some site doesn't work in FireFox.

I almost always use Firefox. If that doesn't work, I try Chromium (opera
used to be good, now it's not much more than an old version of
Chromium). I almost never use Edg, just noticing what happened.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"It has been discovered that the man who was lost in thought was not a
church member." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And
Other Essays_]

On 8/11/20 1:21 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

You could've downloaded it yourself to install the Chromium-based Edge.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

Yes. I actually had it even earlier. IIRC, v75.

According to web.archive.org, Microsoft has offered the "new" Edge since
mid-January 2020.

It's been available. This is just when it came in Win10 updates
(strangely, the Win 7 systems got it earlier).

Of course, you could install Google's Chrome. I've had it for awhile as
my secondary web browser. Firefox is my primary web browser.

Same here.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"It has been discovered that the man who was lost in thought was not a
church member." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And
Other Essays_]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:54:28 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 8/11/20 12:34 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On 8/11/2020 9:53 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.


It doesn't matter to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just as bad as
the old Edge, and I never use it unless some site doesn't work in FireFox.

I almost always use Firefox. If that doesn't work, I try Chromium (opera
used to be good, now it's not much more than an old version of
Chromium). I almost never use Edg, just noticing what happened.

Jack Sprat etc
I have no problem with Chrome Edge. It is quite fast on my desktop, but I
use Firefox as it has the ability to open tabs with left-click-only. So
Edge is my 'other' browser.
On the other hand Edge is my default browser on my android phone mainly
because of its GUI.
AND I prefer Bing as my searcher (and home page)
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Jim S

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:53:15 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

Yes, same here with the change taking place last week (no option
unless you knew the update number for this and only approved certain
updates).

Cue the blizzard of "I hate Edge although I never use it" posts from
the usual suspects - oh yes, here they are!

Much better user settings for fonts in the Chromium version, giving
me some hassle as to what to set as Tampermonkey options - I see
Stylish is offered as a chrome extension as an alternative to
Tampermonkey - what do users on here prefer?

As a temporary workaround I've disabled/removed Sylish etc. for the
time being just relying on user settings for default offered by the
system as installed. Sans-serif fonts etc. I see darker themes are
popular among browser users generally - why? I find them harder to
view as a long term choice.

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:04:51 -0400, Wolffan wrote:

On 11 Aug 2020, Mark Lloyd wrote
(in article ):

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

not nearly long enough.

I use FF and turned off everything Edge. Again.

Are you one of those with "Ken" somewhere in their username? Doesn't
look like it - that's a handy rule for constructing a regular
expression for those Usenet filters!

On 12 Aug 2020, mechanic wrote
(in article ):

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:04:51 -0400, Wolffan wrote:

On 11 Aug 2020, Mark Lloyd wrote
(in article ):

I noticed that today's Win10 update replaced MS Edge with Chromium Edge.
They took a long time to do that.

not nearly long enough.

I use FF and turned off everything Edge. Again.

Are you one of those with "Ken" somewhere in their username?

what on Earth are you talking about?

Doesn't
look like it - that's a handy rule for constructing a regular
expression for those Usenet filters!

It’s simple: I use a variety of computers, mostly Mac, but some Windows and
Linux. I use Firefox as my normal web browser on all of them. Apple doesn’t
care; if I wanted to, I could even delete Safari completely without problems.
Ubuntu and Mint don’t care. Microsoft cares, and tries desperately to force
Edge. If I click on a web search result from the search box in the Start
Menu, for example, Edge launches. So I don’t click there. I get little
pop-ups and banners and crap trying to get me to switch to the ‘best
browser for Windows’;
I kill them. On several occasions after a major Windows update, my default
browser has somehow changed to Edge; I change it back. If I could nuke Edge
completely off of ny Windows systems I would. I don’t do Edge. I don’t do
Chrome. Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi aren’t my browsers of choice, though at
least one of them would be on my various machines.

On 8/11/2020 2:57 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:


And why bother with Google Chrome, IMHO, when SRWare Iron (and likely
others) exist which are the same (AFAIK) but without the spyware (AFAIK)?
o Do we have (yet) an actionable list of all free Windows & Linux
web browsers (and their main purpose)?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.freeware/krNaXA-YEbw




Changed your nym again? If anyone here doesn't know it, that's standard
practice of trolls, to escape from people's killfiles.

But it doesn't bother me. I can, and do, add the new nym to my killfile
faster than he can change it.


--
Ken

On 8/12/2020 5:54 AM, Wolffan wrote:

On several occasions after a major Windows update, my default
browser has somehow changed to Edge; I change it back. If I could nuke Edge
completely off of ny Windows systems I would. I don’t do Edge.


I do, but only very seldom, when some poorly-written web site isn't
compatible with FireFox.



I don’t do
Chrome.


Nor do I. As far as I'm concerned, Chrome is terrible--only slightly
better than Edge.


Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi aren’t my browsers of choice, though at
least one of them would be on my various machines.


I never use any of those--only FireFox, and as I said, very occasionally
Edge.


--
Ken