Edge browser: how can MS improve it ?

[steve2470]

First on my list is, more ***** extensions.

Second is, make it compatible with the most popular sites on the net. Too often it's not compatible, for me anyway.

Third is, they need a shite-ton more configuration options.

Fourth is, they lack a lot of good right-click options that Opera has and other browsers have.

Ok, your turn.

[earthshine]

1. I never saw any reason whatsoever to use Edge.

What does Edge offer that Firefox or Chrome does not?

[steve2470]

2. hmm....good point! nt

[hlthe2b]

5. Me either... Internet Explorer was a POS too, but why did they not improve it instead

of creating a whole new browser????

[steve2470]

6. from what I've read, it was because the IE brand was forever tarnished

IE did get better, but it was too late by then. Everyone hates it now.

[earthshine]

7. Sometimes you have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and make a new baby.

IE was originally designed as tied to the OS. On other words, it shared old programming (legacy code) with Windows going back to Win 95.

They had to redesign from scratch because IE had been patched so many times and all of this inoptimal code prevented them from creating hooks into the more modern operating system Windows 10.

That having been said, Microsoft does nothing that does not serve Microsoft. Windows 10 is not about improving the experience for users, but about improving renumeration from users to Microsoft.

Eventually, Microsoft will figure out ways to make us all pay money to continue to use Windows and Microsoft services. This is coming. That's what all that spying is about.

What prevents it from happening now is that both Google and Apple have beat Microsoft to the goal. Microsoft trails behind the others and I'm very glad.

Microsoft is a bully to its common users, but kisses the asses of the large corporate users.

I upgraded all of my computers to Windows 10, and each one in turn has been downgraded back to Windows 7 and 8.

Windows 10, sometimes inexplicably, takes far too long just to startup.

[hlthe2b]

8. I still have a windows 7 laptop--infinitely better OS than the new win 10 laptop I am using now...

But what really annoys me is the new version of OUTLOOK in the Office Pro package. Uggh. I so want to downgrade it back to the old version... Maybe one weekend when I have more time, I'll try to find my old copy and do so.

[mr_lebowski]

9. I've been surprisingly happy with Windows 10 ... I waited til THE LAST DAY for free W10 too

Didn't really want to move from 7 cause I love it but when the chips were down on that last day W10 was to be available as a free upgrade, my 'economic sense' kicked in ... I knew W7 would be EOL many, many years before W10 would, and figured W11 (or whatnot) *might* be a free upgrade for W10 users but for sure would not be for W7 users, so ... I bit the bullet and updated all my machines and lappys (and my Work machine at the office, which is basically 'mine' to do with as I please) over about a 36 hour span ... kinda expecting the worst.

And I have to say, it's been just fine for me, no major issues.

Sure, I don't like the spying factor but I've done all I can to combat it with settings and declining agreements and such ... and thankfully whatever they're doing doesn't seem to impact my life too much, so ...

I'll always be a W7 fanboy, but W10 is not some miserable substitute ala Vista back in the day. Works fine for me. I also use an overlay program (nextstep) so the windows UI itself is kinda buried to me, I go days without using it directly sometimes.

[Jazzgirl]

10. Windows 10 turned my last Windows laptop into a useless brick.

It's sitting on a pile of other outdated hardware to be gotten rid of. I totally switched to the Mac platform and refuse to look back. I got so tired of having to configure stuff in Windows and their updates caused more problems than not. Screw Microsoft.

[GP6971]

3. Just get rid of it

It sucks

[LuvLoogie]

4. I unpin Edge from the taskbar of every Win 10 installation I do. Just bury it and move on...

Make something else the default browser.

[ManiacJoe]

11. Completing the bookmark support would be nice.

[Egnever]

12. By removing it

Every time I use it it annoys me. It is an add platform first and a browser second.

Given that a large percentage of malware is delivered through adds that makes it a malware platform.

Just nothing really about it makes it a better alternative to chrome or Firefox or even other niche browsers.

[steve2470]

13. I tried using it today and it f******g crashed on me

Granted, I'm using a beta build of Windows but it crashed. I just said fk it and went back to Opera once again.