Microsoft Edge is dead! Hoorah!

I read an article on the German online tech site Chip.de about MS killing Edge, or more specifically, its rendering engine EdgeHTML. It's replacement (could be named Edge) will be based on the Chromium open-source project, just like Chrome, Opera and a couple of others (not Firefox...yet). It could very likely ship with the Win10 1903 update in April.
 
Edge never got above 5% usage share. According to the metrics firm, Edge was often used only once. To download Chrome or Firefox. 

Glyn Barnes
I am one of the 5%, Edge is my favourite browser, I will use Firefox for the odd compatability issue. I uninstall Chrome if some malware or the grandkids install it on any of my computers. I just don't like it, like I don't like onions.

I am one of the 5% too. Even use it on my Android phone.

Most of my IE/edge usage is at work, because a lot of places I have worked have dictated support of MS browsers.  When I do development projects at home, I usually don't bother to change Visual Studio's browser option so I guess I use edge there too.

i've been using edge for netflix (my usual browser is waterfox) maybe i should install the netflix app (win10) as it won't play in wf without drm enabled...

 

bitflipper
 
There was also a great download manager for FF that I used to use for big downloads, until FF broke it. I should check if it works again, because it was very helpful for multi-gigabyte sample library downloads (faster, and could resume failed downloads).
 

DownThemAll was the program. And no it's not working. The site hasn't had a entry since Dec 2017 and when that entry was made it wasn't very promising. And as far as I can tell and from what I can gather, (and this is my summary of what I found out) something about the Chromium browser doesn't support the d/l'ing of files in the manner that we are all looking for. And there are a ton of us looking too!! The only thing I found for Chrome is was Chrono Download Manager and it's not much better than Chromes built in down loader.
 
I am using Edge on this site due to Chrome not working with all the extras. Go to last post, Go To Top button, and such. I am finding that Chrome is going the way of Internet Explorer in that MS tried to dictate what would happen on the web in the way that it wanted (anyone remembers Active X?) and now Google is dictating what will be supported in the Chromium browser everyone is moving to. Haven't been using FF lately but will give it a whirl soon.
 
 

burgerproduction
 
...on my Windows phone (yes, I still have a windows phone) 
 

I do too!! Still a damn good phone. And now the prices they want for new phones is really over the top. I mean 1K for a damn phone?

Glyn Barnes
...I uninstall Chrome if some malware or the grandkids install it on any of my computers. I just don't like it, like I don't like onions.

 
I've given up on Google Chrome after having various different problems with it on different computers. It's either been random crashes, annoying popups or unwanted add-ons getting installed without permission. I don't get these sorts of problems with Firefox or Opera.
 
But I like onions.

Glyn Barnes
I am one of the 5%, Edge is my favourite browser, I will use Firefox for the odd compatability issue. I uninstall Chrome if some malware or the grandkids install it on any of my computers. I just don't like it, like I don't like onions.

 
Same here. To be honest, I can't see any real difference between any of them. It's just a browser...

msmcleod

dubdisciple
I do find it unsettling that it is pushing chrome closer to monopoly. Never cared for edge but monopolies are never good.

I tend to agree, but companies should at least support the current standards, instead of constantly re-inventing their own.
 
Anyone who has done any web development curses Microsoft on a daily basis for having to constantly find workarounds for their browsers because they behave differently to Firefox/Chrome.
 

use firefox ffs -it's up to date on all the latest gubbins, is generally standards compliant (more than the other browsers) and it 's open source, so you can literally go and have a look at the code to see what it's doing... all the others are scraping your data (chrome was recently caught logging people into everything it could, without permission!)
 

bitflipper
How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they just change the standard to "dark".

so true... back in the mid-90s ms had no interest whatsoever in the internet, it was netscape navigator that ruled the roost
 
the deliberate non-compliance is, i think, a misjudged business strategy

pwalpwal

[it was netscape navigator that ruled the roost
 

I forgot about Navigator!!

pwalpwal
use firefox ffs -it's up to date on all the latest gubbins, is generally standards compliant (more than the other browsers) and it 's open source, so you can literally go and have a look at the code to see what it's doing... all the others are scraping your data (chrome was recently caught logging people into everything it could, without permission!) 

I agree! FF is fast and stable, it renders pages properly (unlike the crome based browsers, which inherit the same problem with the text rendering, for example).

Thanks abacab, will check that out. I am back to using FF.