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2021-05-21 Science & Technology

Microsoft Corp is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser

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Posted by Fred 2021-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Google Chrome is beginning to show problems with its implementation of its own rewritten javascript

Posted by badanov 2021-05-21 00:15|| 2021-05-21 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Edge is actually fantastically fast. Like opera used to be. Firefox has become a bloated nuisance.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-21 01:19|| 2021-05-21 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3

I'll stick with TOR and etc., for better privacy and security.

Edge & Chrome want way too much system / file access and control for me to get a Warm and Fuzzy.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-05-21 06:39|| 2021-05-21 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm guessing 'slicker' is in relation to IE, not Chrome

Edge is somewhat just Chrome reskinned for MS. It uses the same Blink web engine as Chrome and all other Chromium-based browsers.

it will be nice to have MS bundling a modern browser that has rolling updates like every other browser in existence.

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-05-21 08:24|| 2021-05-21 08:24|| Front Page Top

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-05-21 12:06|| 2021-05-21 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 My problem with IE was always its proprietary DOM. I've avoided Edge so far, being an exclusively Linux user. Edge users will have to let me know when the problems start showing up, since I don't test on it.

Posted by Fred 2021-05-21 15:07|| 2021-05-21 15:07|| Front Page Top

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