• Whirlybird
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    1 year ago

    Edge wasn’t always chromium. It was their own engine and it was great, but too many people complained essentially that it wasn’t chromium so they switched to chromium.

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        Yeah, it might have been “fine” at the normal web browsing part, but Microsoft kept trying to push their proprietary extension store. Also, didn’t they not support extensions for the longest time? I think that was the biggest reason they switched to chromium, so they could use all those existing chrome extensions?

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        No, just telling the truth. It was one of, if not the most W3C compliant browsers around. Chrome is one of the worst, but that was chromes goal - kinda like IE back in the original browser wars. Make your browser “win” by essentially forcing developers to make features exclusive to you instead of using the developed standards.

        Chrome had some killer features as well, which thankfully they’ve kept on adding since the switch. Edge is imo the most feature rich browser on the market now, but it’s a shame it’s running chromium.

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      Same with Opera, I miss old Opera with stackable tabs and before they got sold off to some shady company

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        That’s like saying COD MWII 2022 is just Quake 3 revamped.

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        Yes but it was changed quite a bit, it supported way more standards and was getting way more updates to keep it up to date. The issue is that was expensive and also people complained that it some websites didn’t work on it, so it made more economical sense to switch it to chromium. I really wish they had kept it though.

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        Sorta, sorta not. Looking at the wiki page, it used “EdgeHTML” as the browser engine, which was a fork of ie’s engine (MSHTML). But it was a massive overhaul removing a bunch of legacy code and rewriting parts to fit modern standards and to make it compatible with webkit. It was maintained alongside ie11.

        I remember testing it out and it being a lot faster than ie was when it first came out, but I’ve always been a ff user so I didn’t switch to it.