I know you can play the game at chrome://dino, but it doesn’t evoke the same nostalgic feeling of a 10yr old me turning on aeroplane mode and spamming space bar to try and beat my brother’s high score. Good memories.

  • HRDS_654@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Edge is actually better than Chrome. Don’t @ me. I still prefer Firefox to both and always have.

    • Rafael D Martins@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I use Firefox on my personal computer (running Gentoo) and use only Edge on my business notebook.

      Edge was better before, now MS is already adding intrusive info screens and aggressive configurations…

      • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I just got a minisforum UM790 which comes with windows. So until I get my new SSD I’m checking out Windows 11. One thing I was happy about was that I could create a local account with no issue. No Winget without an internet account so I’m using chocolatey like I did long ago.

              • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                Is that a wtf about me not wanting to log into a Microsoft account to forever link my desktop operating system to the cloud (someone else’s computer) and forever risk a violation of my privacy and security, or about it being a requirement?

  • HurlingDurling@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    My brother in christ, just run winget install firefox in command prompt and be done. Fuck chrome and edge.

          • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            uBlock origin might be able to block Edge’s embedded ads, but yes, Edge does that. For example, if you go to the page to download Google Chrome, a banner ad covers the top half of your screen that advertises Edge’s features.

            Even if uBlock fixes this, I don’t know why anyone would want to use a browser that does this in the first place when better Chromium based browsers exist, especially Brave. (I prefer Firefox, but I understand the need to use Chromium instead of Gecko as webpages are generally slightly more reliable).

    • TeddE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m very glad it works for you. Edge is a perfectly fine browser ever since they ditched their engine and copied Google’s Chrome with a coat of paint and a couple extensions baked in.

      To be frank though, if Edge forking Chromium is the best the tech titan Microsoft can do, I’m genuinely disappointed in them, and I’d rather just use Chromium.

      • ButhJolokia@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it was a sensible decision to drop their own engine as nobody liked it anyway. Might as well go with a proven one and use your resources on stuff your customers want you to focus on. Since Nadella took over, Microsoft has been very well managed imo and they made a lot of right moves, like their move into cloud computing, embracing open source, integrating linux subsystem on windows, etc…

        Their choice to ditch their IE/edge engine is a symptom of these better managerial choices.

  • narp@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Now with googles DRM plans everyone should consider leaving chromium based Browsers.

    The only way to retain the little freedom and privacy that we still have is if we start to care and put in at least a bit of resistance.

  • Sabata11792@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Chrome is the “One of my fuck ton of Firefox addons broke this site but I don’t want to waste time figuring out what one” browser.

    • scytale@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Lol same. I also use it for time critical stuff where you don’t want to risk a site breaking, like when trying to get tickets for good seats on a concert when sale opens.

  • vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I will always find it funny that people use Edge to download Chrome because they are essentially using Chrome to download a worse version of Chrome.

    • Djtecha@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I keep finding less and less ms products that are even palatable…

      • vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I understand where you’re coming from (there is a reason I’m a Linux user) but Edge isn’t that bad of a browser. Obviously, browsers like Brave, Opera and Firefox are better but, at least from my experience, Chrome is significantly worse than Edge.

        • adamth0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Interesting. In what ways is Chrome worse than Edge? I have to admit, I haven’t given Edge much of a chance. I primarily use Firefox, except for work things (we use Google apps at work) which I’ve been told to use Chrome for.
          I can’t think of Edge without imagining it as some sort of unkillable Internet Explorer zombie that just won’t die. Is it actually better than Chrome?

          • vortexal@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            On top of have more built-in privacy features, Edge is both faster and more stable than Chrome. For me, Chrome has almost always been very slow and unstable, while other Chromium based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Opera have never given me performance and stability issues. It’s actually kind of bizarre to me that most benchmark tests that I’ve seen online say that Chrome is the fastest when I’ve only every seen the exact opposite.

            Also, the dev team that works on Edge is not actually directly associated with Microsoft. This is the reason why Edge isn’t exclusive to Windows. The only reason people don’t give it a chance is because they, like you, just automatically assume it’s just a reskinned IE.

            Edit: Can whoever it was that gave me a downvote explain why? I’ve made similar comments on Reddit that also get downvotes and I’ve never understood why. Like, I’m sorry that Chrome works perfectly fine for you but runs like shit for me, I guess.

            • adamth0@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Thanks!
              I might give Edge another look. Our work corporate standard machines are MacOS and Chrome, and a heavy sprinkling of Google Apps. I might give it a go on my home stuff, though.
              I used to like Opera until it went Chromium. The performance seemed to tank after that, and it was using waaay more memory than before.

          • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            As a daily Edge user of choice:

            • Burns less memory
            • Looks, IMO, better
            • Vertical tabs, bing bot built-in, collections.

            I do have to say I don’t know too much about differences because once I tested Edge i simply ditched chrome from the get go and never felt need to return to it. Shit chrome does Edge does too and sometimes even better, so yeah.

            Also, Edge doesn’t have really anything in connection to IE.

  • shayan16sa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    F*ck edge and Windows all of my homies use Linux distro which Firefox is installed on them by default.

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Edge has replaced Chrome for me actually. If any time Firefox doesn’t work for me, or the website just runs better on Chrome, I use Edge. It’s chromium, so it does everything Chrome can do, plus a few features like PDF viewing, collections, and lower resource usage than Chrome (maybe).

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And, the hope is any Data Collection algorithms in it have been replaced by Microsoft. (Maybe with their own, but at least they don’t run an ad network)

        • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Sorry; you’re correct, I shouldn’t have said that.

          Still, that ad network generally has far less influence and presence than Google’s, and I don’t think there’s a huge effort to make it grow to their size.

          • variants_of_concern@lemmy.oneEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I mean if you use windows it’s baked right into the OS already, I still just prefer Firefox though, I liked the profiles in chrome especially made it easy to switch accounts with its own bookmarks but I got used to living without that

    • TerkErJerbs@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Why wouldn’t you just go back to the source: Chromium? There’s even Ungoogled Chromium running strong and others similar to it. In some cases you need to do some shenanigans to get extensions to work (from the Chrome extensions store) but it’s locked down enough that you can safely say fuck Google whilst still using the browser code Google colonized and made universal.

      Or whatever.

  • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure why there’s so much love for FF here. It sucks for web development - or rather there are some very important features that Firefox doesn’t have that Chrome does have.

    • HumbleHobo@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      As someone that uses FF regularly AND does web development, I’m curious, specifically, what important features are you talking about?

      • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        So when you’re writing JavaScript, as I’m sure you know, it’s bad form to add prototypes to primitives.

        So let’s say you have an Object, and it holds data about a person: hair color, eyes, weight, height, etc.

        But if you want to make that object do something, like calculate the bmi, what do you do?

        You could just go ahead and add “.calculateBmi” to Object, but that’s bad form, right?

        So you create a Person object, and it has weight, height and all the other stuff, then you can also assign it methods, like .calculateBmi, and that’s great.

        Well, in Chrome when you console.log the Person object, it’s says “Person” and it lets you open it right up and look around to see what the height and weight are, and it’s great.

        However, In FF, it just says “Object.” And you have to open it, then open a few other things underneath it to find out what type of object it is, and it’s members and methods.

        And its takes way longer to debug. And there’s a few other, little things like that, that I can’t think of. I’d love to use FF, but it’s just not there yet.

  • Jmr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Firefox: My Web browser
    Chrome: for when sites don’t work with Firefox (rare)
    Edge: Uninstalled

    • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I do the same (except I didn’t have to uninstall edge cause I’m on linux) only real difference is I use ungoogled chromium as my Firefox backup

        • sirdorius@kbin.social
          017·
          1 year ago

          Oh ok so just a simple powershell command:

          Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

          Totally easy to remember