Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer

ZDNet ^ | October 26, 2020 | Catalin Cimpanu

[faithhopecharity]

Why the hell wound a business do such a thing to patrons ?! Force is not part of proper business or sales or customer relations practices

[daniel1212]

I use Chrome.

Edge is fit for about one tab browsing, and Chrome is not much better, but all of the browsers are handicapped compared to the old Firefox ESR due to its extensions, or Waterfox. Firefox Quantum (i use the portable one) is the best up-to-date one out of the many I have installed. Which you can hack it to get multiple tab rows. Chrome will not let you do that or even let you choose to Alt+Tab toggle btwn the more recently opened tabs, forcing you to go thru all the tabs to from the beginning to get back to where you were. But thank God for options.

[Viking2002]

I dropped Cinnamon on a spare tower I have in a caddy under my desk. I’m impressed but the video driver is all banjaxed and I’m missing the left 4” of my screen. Might switch over to Mandriva and see how that does.

[mad_as_he$$]

IE is simple garbage now.
Edge is close to it.

There are several much better browsers out there. I use Brave 90% of the time.

[Paul R.]

Me too.

[daniel1212]

When Linux works with games/ games development, has a decent IDE, has decent industry standard 2D and 3D content production apps and office apps ok. Right now, it’s really only for server use.

Without knowing coding and issues resulting from so many flavors, Linux can be used fine for the Internet and basic computing (we have one that is mainly for the former, but it lack the wealth of easy customization and wealth of free software to do such.

Like over 200 tweaks available in in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 for Windows 10 From the Windows club.

Add to this Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker

Then there is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus) , and T-Clock Redux and Classic Shell, now called Open Shell (https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/archive/master.zip)

Composite (with my own Quick Launch menu) using T-Clock and Open Shell, by the grace of God.:

[daniel1212]

I used to be a Puppy fan. Boot from a CD, and ready to run.

And signed in as root by default. It was rather simple and the developers had a sense of humor.

[minnesota_bound]

IE11 is old. At work we had to switch to Chrome as the various databases at the websites we connect to will not work well with IE anymore.

I use Firefox on my home pc as I can make changes to the toolbar look.

Edge and Chrome use the same chromium software and have a too minimum toolbar plus Chrome is so slow after a while if you keep the browser open with many tabs all week as I do.

Firefox use to have the same issue but not anymore. It does not crash due to memory leaks anymore.

[DoodleBob]

I was debating the Constitutionality of breaking up tech firms with a FReeper and recounted the Browser Wars on how the market is more efficient than the Justice Dept. Back in 1995, Netscape has 95% of the market. A few years later, Netscape was gone and IE had 95% of market share. Nowadays, IE is dying...

[Varmint Al]

Linux Mint Cinnamon 20 all the way here. Great Software. Works Great. Brave and Firefox and no need for any MS spyware.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[Starcitizen]

Visual Assist is a plug-in for Visual Studio Professional and above (yeah I pay for it).

[Starcitizen]

I don’t do “basic” computing. Heavy games content creation and games development.

[Starcitizen]

Wine.

Eve Online and other games which attempt to run on Mac/ Linux use it.

Clunky and slow as hell. Has trouble with accelerated hardware rendered graphics. (As does running most VMs)

[Starcitizen]

Most Linux had problems still with accelerated GPU support, SLI, PhysX etc due to piss-poor driver support from Nvidia and AMD.

Falls back to frame-buffered software rendering? Seriously?

[Starcitizen]

DirectX 10 or above support? Missing. An absolute requirement for games development. DirectX 9 just sucks in so many ways.

[dayglored]

I suspect what that pie chart shows is the fact that most websites are now getting hit mainly by mobile phones and tablets. Why else would Chrome (on Android) and Safari (on iOS) have such large percentages? (Hint: It isn’t all from Safari on MacOS and Chrome on Windows.)

Desktop browsing is now the minority player.

[daniel1212]

I don’t do “basic” computing. Heavy games content creation and games development.

I hear you. I do not play or create games on the PC but have about 40 tabs open across 6 browsers, each with its own major purpose, and often about a dozen docs, among other things using up over half my 32GB of ram and sometimes taxing the 4 GHZ Ryzen 3200G CPU, thank God, but never found Linux to provide the scope of customization and functions I want. Yet it certainly has its place and users.

[daniel1212]

But if it was not for Google marketing and mobile devices, Chrome would be about half as popular, and should be less than that in my opinion. However, Google voice is neat, as it works on an old smart phone that is not activated.

[Starcitizen]

Like I said, if a server needs building, it’s *ONLY* going to be a Linux box.

Linux is not ready for the desktop world, unless you want to use a bunch of open-source poorly-supported apps. In the normal professional content creation space, you just don’t use it.

Next person that tells me to use the Gimp instead of Photoshop, or Blender instead of 3DSMAX or audacity instead of ProTools will get shot :) No one in industry uses them.

[DoodleBob]

Indeed check out the Wikipedia page on browser usage.