New Chromium based Microsoft Edge now generally available

Clintlgm said:

We await syncing of Extensions and Apps and a few other things.

Scottyboy99 said:

Not liking the sound of some of these more recent posts. Kind of inevitable it would bug out on the favourites! I won’t block it as cannot avoid it forever but I hope it keeps its distance as long as possible. Question, what happens to internet explorer after this goes into a machine? Does that remain safe and untouched ? I still use it a fair bit

I hope IE remains since I still use Microsoft Money c. 2005 which relies on IE for its operation

Steve C said:

I hope IE remains since I still use Microsoft Money c. 2005 which relies on IE for its operation

I have both Stable and Dev Chromium Edge versions and IE is still present.

swarfega said:

Its Edge that gets removed by installing Edgeium.

Yup. Am happy with Edgeium!

There is one thing about Edge and Internet Explorer that has bugged me for years,
which Microsoft has never fully fixed. Some pop-ups still get through.

For me, this happens around every six months or so where in this example, I will be on the default Microsoft News start page,
click on some story, click on some multi slide show of some silly actor,
get bombarded by all kinds of ads,
then hijacked by one of those scam sites that take over control of the browser(see screenshot),
and the only way to get out is to go to Task Manager and end Microsoft Edge, or just restart the computer.


Microsoft just can't seem to get a handle on it letting tech support scams sites have total control.
I'm not concerned about it myself, but for a lot of people who don't know how to fully use their operating system,
and to understand that sites can use looks to totally fool users into thinking something is wrong and the user calls the phone number to fix the problem.

This really bugs me that older people can fall for these traps very easily.
I'm hoping that this new Chromium based Microsoft Edge safeguards users from this trickery.

Has anyone encountered sites like this with Chromium-Edge?

jacatdilly said:

I'm hoping that this new Chromium based Microsoft Edge safeguards users from this trickery.

Has anyone encountered sites like this with Chromium-Edge?

I never see anything like that in Firefox or (now) with the new Edge, there is reason for that. You shouldn't expect Microsoft to do anything about it, protecting yourself from content that runs in webpages you visit has to come from you. When you visit websites, you not only get the content from that website, but you get content from other websites as well. Some websites you visit, could serve perhaps content from 20 other websites or more, much more. In some sites, the amount of content that wants to run is huge. Most of this extra content, runs what I consider is undesirable or unneeded content, and in some cases it can be dangerous, like the screen you posted.

So, what do I do to tame websites? I use a content blocker, the best there is in my opinion is NoScript. Its been around for a very long time, its got many users, comes from a well known developer and it works.

Personally, I am delighted with new Edge, the reason being that I can use NoScript with it. For many years, NoScript was only available for Firefox, this being the main reason why I am a 100% of the time Firefox user. Then, a few years back, it became available for Chromium browsers but I have never being interested in using anything that smells like Chrome, until now.

NoScript is working great in Edge. If you like to get rid of undesirable content, I suggest you take a look at it. But know that is not easy to learn it, it takes a while, but once you make sense of what you are doing, the program clicks and is like learning to ride a 2 wheel bicycle. It becomes easy. I get a lot of satisfaction from using NoScript, sometimes you might go to a website that wants to run content from 40 domains and you dont have to allow any to get the content you want, or you have a favorite website that runs content from 25 websites, and to get what you want out of that website, you only have to allow content from 3 of those websites, then you setup that site that way. The gain you get in security and usability from learning what to allow and what not to allow to run is huge.



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