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Yeah, looks nice !! Been using that theme for now.
Yeah, looks nice !! Been using that theme for now.
This is obviously a topic people feel strongly about. There are parts of both side of the arguments I agree with. Does Edge have it's limitations? Most definitely. Should it have been released a lot more capable that it was? Probably. After all is there anyone that's made browsers longer than MS? They really should have it down by now.
Having said that I think, at least part of the issue, is MS's attempt to make a unified OS. Everyone admits that Chrome is a power hog, but it needs that to give it all its functionality. At this point I see Edge as a fairly barebones mobile browser that works "ok" on a desktop. Time will see if it works as well on mobile devices. In any case, its a compromise.
To be fair, the more I use it, the more I see how to do some of the things I want. Not everything, and I think getting it to do some of that stuff is a lot harder than it should be. Do you really need two different places to handle you favorites? I don't have near the requirements that apparently some do. A perfect browser for me would still suck for a lot of others. Which leads to the good point. No one has to give up the browser they like and are used to. If you like Chrome, keep using it. It will make you happier, and hopefully push MS toward doing better.
Yeah, good thing is they are all free, browsers, so pick and choose. I use 2 on mine. Have to admit, Edge is fast.
There is nothing in the settings that turns on this, and the extension does not come with IE. You must have added it at some point. Yes, you can disable extensions in MS's settings once you've installed them, but it doesn't come that way by default. Microsoft is not going to provide a "search with google" feature by default, that's just ridiculous.
I use Foxit Reader you can google and find a download if you want to try it. I have used it for years. See Below:
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-reader/
From my first very quick impressions, Edge seems to basically be 'Internet Explorer Lite'. Nice pretty big slidey controls for the children to poke their fingers at, but with most of the underlying substance removed.
Compare something as simple as a right-click in IE (somewhere around 28 options on my system) to a right-click in Edge (3 options, missing even the most vital 'Save As' and 'Save Target As'). Then compare the amount of 'Advanced Settings' choices available in each program. And there isn't even an Alt-key menu.
In short, a nice little toy for using on a phone maybe, but currently utterly useless for a serious desktop user.
Andre