When will they ever learn?

  • Specter@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    In fear of playing devils advocate a little bit:

    Edge is not a shitty browser. Ad-infested, controlling, overwhelming, disrespectful, annoying yes. But not shitty.

    It’s chromium-based so it’s quite fast and secure (unlike Internet Explorer that everyone loved back in the day) and it integrates well with the overall OS.

    I wouldn’t use Edge, but it’s a decent default if you’re okay accepting Windows antics or too young to remember for how long Microsoft has been desperately trying to play catch up and failing.

    It’s an opinion, don’t kill me. 😶‍🌫️

    Edit: unrelated to the topic, but I’d like to thank everyone for not downvoting me for wrong think like what would happen on that other platform. Why is this community so nice? 😭

    • 5715@feddit.org
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      6 hours ago

      I’d argue that those behaviours are what make the browser shitty.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s also a fair point, in hindsight. I associate shitty to being insecure, slow, and borderline unusable. I have a middle of the road view on the privacy aspect because Chrome exists, it doesn’t care about your privacy but I think you’ll be hard pressed to call it shitty.

        That said, I wouldn’t hold my breath and I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few months time Chrome comes with Gemini integrated by default. All your private data, straight to Google’s servers.

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          3 hours ago

          You’re very a tolerant person. I wish i could be that tolerant, but I don’t think I can and I guess I do pay the price quite often…

      • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
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        4 hours ago

        Firefox has tab groups, tab notes, tab categories, vertical tabs

        Only thing is missing integration with teams and outlook.

      • mrnobody@reddthat.com
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        4 hours ago

        I do like vertical tabs too… But Firefox has a plugin for that so I’ve been using Firefox the last year or so and rarely have an issue.

      • brsrklf@jlai.lu
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        4 hours ago

        Until they started to generate slopilot labels for them. Because nothing is safe from the slop.

      • frongt@lemmy.zip
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        4 hours ago

        Firefox has tab groups too. I don’t know if the implementation is any different since I’ve never used them in either browser.

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      4 hours ago

      I used it for a little bit years ago after it switched to a chromium engine. It was fine.