2y ago

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I know you can play the game at chrome://dino, but it doesn't evoke the same nostalgic feeling of a 10yr old me turning on aeroplane mode and spamming space bar to try and beat my brother's high score. Good memories.

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Here we go.
I use edge exclusively on Windows and have zero issues
- It's just Chromium in disguise anyway.
  
  Indeed. It works fine. More efficient tham chrome.
- Are you happy with it? If so, that's all that matters.
  
  I wouldn't be very happy if my browser injected ads into webpages.
- Honestly speaking, I've used Edge on Windows and have had no issues. It's a decent browser not taking privacy into consideration. The only thing pissing me off is supporting the Chromium monopoly.
- I'm very glad it works for you. Edge is a perfectly fine browser ever since they ditched their engine and copied Google's Chrome with a coat of paint and a couple extensions baked in.
  To be frank though, if Edge forking Chromium is the best the tech titan Microsoft can do, I'm genuinely disappointed in them, and I'd rather just use Chromium.
  
  I think it was a sensible decision to drop their own engine as nobody liked it anyway. Might as well go with a proven one and use your resources on stuff your customers want you to focus on. Since Nadella took over, Microsoft has been very well managed imo and they made a lot of right moves, like their move into cloud computing, embracing open source, integrating linux subsystem on windows, etc...
  Their choice to ditch their IE/edge engine is a symptom of these better managerial choices.
  
  They haven’t forked it though. They’re actively contributing to Chromium so Chrome users benefit as well.
- I use edge for my work accounts on my work computers. It's nice to have passwords auto fill and everything integrated through my windows sign on, and be "air gapped" from my personal stuff. I find experience to be basically identical to my home surfing on other chromium-based browsers.
  
  I do the same.
  Chrome for home and Edge for work.
- Edge's baked in coupon code finder is incredible.
- If it works for you, great!
- For real I don't even mind Edge. I use it for work though and it's been great for what I need it to do. Firefox is for everything else that's not work related.

Edge is actually better than Chrome. Don't @ me. I still prefer Firefox to both and always have.
- I have to use it at work and it's fine. It's just chromium. I don't get the hate. I do get the hate against internet explorer though.
  
  It is just Chromium and the hate most likely comes from it being made by Microsoft which is completely stupid because it's not like Google is any better. In fact, I would say they are worse that Microsoft since their business is entirely reliant on selling user data. Microsoft at least has other avenues of income allowing them to not completely relying on selling your data to the highest bidder. Let me be clear on this, I am aware that they all sell data because that is the business they are in.
  Also, Edge preforms better and does not phone home to google like other Chromium browser so...
  
  Edge UI is shit tbh
- Use Chocolatey and cut out the middleman :D
  
  I just got a minisforum UM790 which comes with windows. So until I get my new SSD I'm checking out Windows 11. One thing I was happy about was that I could create a local account with no issue. No Winget without an internet account so I'm using chocolatey like I did long ago.
- I don't know why but there's some websites I frequently go to that either don't work/load correctly with chrome or Firefox. I always made fun of my brother for using edge, but since I've started using it months ago I haven't had any issues like I had before. Additionally, it seems to be better at managing memory because I've never seen it consume anywhere near the amount of ram that chrome does. Also, edge allows you to neatly put your tabs vertically on a side bar and allows you to group tabs without having to get 3rd party add-ons.
  Making fun of edge is like making fun of internet explorer, but feature-wise it's the same/better than other browsers. Props to Firefox but it's just never worked well for me
  
  Out of the 3 browsers. Edge freezes most of the time for me, and with each update Microsoft inserts more uneeded & annoying bloatware and gotta figure out how to disable it.
- I agree. I use Firefox on my personal computer (running Gentoo) and use only Edge on my business notebook.
  Edge was better before, now MS is already adding intrusive info screens and aggressive configurations...
- I just thank the gods that I can download and install Firefox via chocolatey.

Chrome is the "One of my fuck ton of Firefox addons broke this site but I don't want to waste time figuring out what one" browser.
- Tbh id just use ungoogled chromium for this, having the "pros" of chrome without the spying and spook
- Lol same. I also use it for time critical stuff where you don't want to risk a site breaking, like when trying to get tickets for good seats on a concert when sale opens.
  
  Interestingly, a lotta sites that involve banking seem to make Firefox choke.
- This is why profiles are so useful. You can use one when the other breaks. I've got about 7 profiles each perfectly tuned to a specific niche.

The meme was designed in LibreOffice. It worked surprisingly well. Only open source software was used for the creation of this meme.
- Chrome existed when you were 10, that makes me feel old. 😂
  
  Well, not exactly 10. Was born in 1999. Think I was maybe 14 or 15 when I first played it. Still feels like a long time has passed. Time flies when you're enjoying life.
- LibreOffice Draw is genuinely quite good for this sort of thing. I've used it before to design a rough mockup of a webpage.

My brother in christ, just run winget install firefox in command prompt and be done. Fuck chrome and edge.
- I started a clean Windows install a few weeks ago. Upon first boot, I immediately deleted the program files folder for Edge in an act of defiance to Microsoft. I then realized I had no browser. Had to ask my son to put a Firefox installer on a flash drive for me.
  3 days later, I found out that winget exists.
  
  To really stick it to windows try out Linux, there's plenty of comparable distributions with a windows feel. Else there are programs to disable and limit window's telemetry and advertisements.

winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox
- dnf install firefox -y
  
  pacman -S firefox
- Real Men™ compile from source!
- Slap a -h on there to make it silent too.

Laughs in Arch with no preinstalled browser.
I use Arch btw.

I will always find it funny that people use Edge to download Chrome because they are essentially using Chrome to download a worse version of Chrome.
- I keep finding less and less ms products that are even palatable...
  
  I understand where you're coming from (there is a reason I'm a Linux user) but Edge isn't that bad of a browser. Obviously, browsers like Brave, Opera and Firefox are better but, at least from my experience, Chrome is significantly worse than Edge.

F*ck edge and Windows all of my homies use Linux distro which Firefox is installed on them by default.

Edge have a surf game that's a clone of SkiFree:

You don't need Chrome anymore

Now with googles DRM plans everyone should consider leaving chromium based Browsers.
The only way to retain the little freedom and privacy that we still have is if we start to care and put in at least a bit of resistance.

Edge has replaced Chrome for me actually. If any time Firefox doesn't work for me, or the website just runs better on Chrome, I use Edge. It's chromium, so it does everything Chrome can do, plus a few features like PDF viewing, collections, and lower resource usage than Chrome (maybe).
- And, the hope is any Data Collection algorithms in it have been replaced by Microsoft. (Maybe with their own, but at least they don’t run an ad network)
  
  They do. https://ads.microsoft.com/
- Why wouldn't you just go back to the source: Chromium? There's even Ungoogled Chromium running strong and others similar to it. In some cases you need to do some shenanigans to get extensions to work (from the Chrome extensions store) but it's locked down enough that you can safely say fuck Google whilst still using the browser code Google colonized and made universal.
  Or whatever.

PSA:
Edge is also what you should use whenever you're making a public presentation and need to open a browser.
Why? Because you never use edge, therefore autocomplete is almost empty which means you can type:
x
p
h
r
With full confidence that NOTHING will appear that you will not want public.
- Or you could use the ProfileManager present in both Firefox and Chromium for maximum carnage.
- Now that's some solid advice!

Firefox: My Web browser
Chrome: for when sites don't work with Firefox (rare)
Edge: Uninstalled

jokes on you, firefox came pre-installed on my OS 😎

laughs in Linux, with firefox preinstalled and no edge

The dinosaur game was out when you were ten? Jesus I feel old. When I was ten our home computer was still running Window 98.
- Cries in 3.1.1 for workgroups.
  
  Ohh, look at the fancy guy with mouse and stuff. DOS 5 for this dinosaur.
- I think the first computer I ever used ran Windows XP.
  
  You lucked out, Windows XP was amazing. Huge upgrade from the versions before it. I still miss it sometimes lol.

Librewolf ftw
- I like a browser that can bring my tabs back if it crashes or I have to reboot.
  
  I think you can enable history and it'll work then, but I don't do that so I can't say exactly.
  
  I don't. Thats why Librewolf is almost perfect for me.

I do not event TOUCH edge, i use powershell to download the firefox installer
- Weird flex, but okay

Chrome is for those stupid banking websites that doesn't work with Firefox

I’ve used Edge since day 1 and it’s just like chrome, but it eats less RAM ob windows…
Still worse than asking people directly tho

Appreciate this meme created from LibreOffice.

But Linux comes with Firefox usually.

That's so relatable. I can relate

There are times when I want to use the Bing AI, so I'll pop open Edge, but the Microsoft home screen is so terrible.
- I use edge at work since it's here and my pdfs auto open on it. It's not that bad. I like how you can group tabs, makes things easier when doing research.

I use ungoogled (degoggled?) Chromium if the website decides to be difficult and doesn't like FF (i use waterfox but same difference lol)
- What websites are you people visiting that don't work with Firefox?
  I've been using Firefox since it was initially released and haven't had an issue with any websites
  
  For me it's homebrewery (where people post their custom D&D monsters and such). That website doesn't render the pdfs properly unless using a Chromium based browser. Also Owlbear Rodeo (a virtual table top where our D&D group play) that has some memory issues? It just starts lagging like mad after a few minutes.
  Also my SO's online therapy service only allow them to call with a Chromium browser.
  Competablity was honestly felt better 10-15 years ago.

Anyone tried edge://surf/ ?
- It's okay. It doesn't exactly make me feel anything though. Most of the games I enjoy are ones that make me feel a particular emotion.
- Yes, the surf game is way more fun than the dino in my opinion!

I use firefox/librewolf for everything and keep a chromium based browser around for those rare websites that don't work well on Firefox (fuck you google drive, ik you're doing it on purpose).
- I don't know about you but whenever I fiddle around about:config in firefox, Google Drive stops working. Maybe make a new profile and don't change much in about:config? This got Google Drive working for me

Anyone remember the spy hunter car game built into MS excel 2000? Shit was the goat.

Vivaldi rules as usual with a full blown, cyberpunk themed platformer for when there's no internet
- Tab tiling is just too useful

And I use Edge for when a website doesn't work because of one of the privacy addons: some websites don't like to have the referrer removed, domains blocked or user agent switched.

Firefox as daily browser and Edge for work/sites that don't work with FF. Chrome is redundant there

I forgot about the dino game. I tried it. I got a score of 666. Preserving the score.

Edge is fine for the most part. I prefer FireFox on my personal devices but Edge does the job for Enterprise pretty well.

Waterfox most of the time, Vivaldi for when I can't be bothered to whitelist individual scripts.

Been using Firefox more once I found out I could have tweaked extensions to mimic Edge's vertical tabs
Though I still have Edge for YouTube uploads, for some reason uploading on Firefox is slow
- Edge is based on Chromium that’s why.

Firefox for me, and then edge if I have issues with it. I used edge on its own for a while but I got tired of that homepage it keeps reverting back to for some reason

On desktop it's mainly Firefox, on mobile it's mainly the stock Samsung browser.
But I've started using Edge a bit more on mobile lately since I discovered its reading mode, which makes for a very clean readable format to read articles.
- Oh man, you need to get on the Firefox for Android train. You can install uBlock Origin to block ads, and there's some other handy extensions as well. It also has reading mode and works really well, you'll see an icon that looks like a piece of paper on the right side of the address bar. You can also sync your bookmarks if you have a Firefox account, if that matters to you.
  
  Thanks, I'll check it out.
  In terms of blocking ads, I run Adguard (lifetime sub), which blocks ads system wide - even in apps.
  Synced bookmarks could be good though.

When there's no internet I head into my file explorer and open up games that I installed a while ago but never played.

I prefer Vivaldi.

I use edge whenever sites decide they hate ff

The one reason why I use Edge is for the great pdf editing and marking functions, especially in a university context.
But if there is any addon for firefox that rnables the same features as edge has, please lead me to it
- I'm not sure what kind of features Edge has for PDFs, but FireFox has recently gotten an update to it's PDF editor so you can edit them in FireFox. Might be worth checking out if that is truly the only reason.

Clown world. I use Microsoft spyware to install Google spyware instead. I am an intellectual

Usually use firefox for default browser, brave for PWAs, chrome for streaming to a Chromecast and edge at work for debugging because it connects nicely with Vs code

I've recently started using Edge as a YouTube TV browser. It's a temporary arrangement, but it lets me cast from mobile across the room.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dino_game/

Firefox for me, and then edge if I have issues with it. I used edge on its own for a while but I got tired of that homepage it keeps reverting back to for some reason

This is the way

Google was 0 years old when I was ten.

I use Chrome to run the Transposer For Youtube plugin because I haven't found an equivalent for Firefox yet.
- @teuast @StewartGilligan, use Vivaldi instead of Chrome.
  
  It's got a pitch transposer? That's literally the only thing I need to leave Firefox for.

Why wouldn't you just use the store or winget to install Firefox?

Edge is also built on Chromium so it's basically a different Chrome skin. It does do a few things somewhat differently than Chrome. I'm not shilling for Edge as I just switched from Brave (another Chromium browser) to Firefox, and I keep edge "clean" in case I come across a website that doesn't want to work in Firefox or Chrome.
- Just switched from Brave back to FF again myself. I want to use FF for everything but I can't. Mainly development. It keeps everything in cache even while in incognito. So when I make changes I don't see then even through fresh incognito sessions. Its very frustrating. Its been this way for forever. No issues with Chrome/Edge/Brave

Don't need Chrome; I use Edge for when I need a chromium based browser.

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