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By removing over 50 services included by Google in Chrome, Microsoft's new Chrome based edge is noticeably faster than Google's Counterpart

 

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Microsoft just released preview versions of its Chromium-powered Edge browser today. It’s very stable and performs surprisingly well. It even performs better than Google’s own Chrome browser on Windows 10, despite being built on the same Chromium open-source project. The company has revealed all of the Google services it has replaced or removed from its new Chromium-powered browser to optimize performance. Microsoft has removed or replaced more than 50 of Google’s services that come as part of Chromium. Microsoft’s Edge engineering team is due to reveal more about its Chromium work during a BlinkOn 10 keynote tomorrow. Microsoft is also working on ARM support for Chromium, alongside PDF enhancements, battery life improvements, smooth scrolling, editing, layout, dev tools, and web authentication. Microsoft also notes that “building Edge on Chromium was a relatively smooth process,” and that it has made hundreds of changes to Chromium to produce its Edge version with more than 300 merges so far. It’s clear we’re only at the starting phase of a Chromium-powered Edge, and Microsoft is also developing versions that will run on Windows 8, Windows 7, and macOS.

 

My Thoughts:
I honestly never thought I'd be saying this in my lifetime... but I may actually switch back to Microsoft's web browser. Assuming it can keep full chrome add-in compatibility, better performance, and better battery life that is. I'm mainly waiting on some detailed reports on the data collection Microsoft's Edge is doing versus Google's Chrome. I really think Microsoft made the correct decision.

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When the world faces the decision of migrate to Edge or stay on Chrome and us Firefox users are just here like:

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That's impressive on paper, but I'll believe it when I see it as time passes.

 

Im already loving how much less RAM new Edge uses, it make a nice replacement on my laptop which currently uses Chrome. Battery like you mentioned is also a concern though.

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1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

When the world faces the decision of migrate to Edge or stay on Chrome and us Firefox users are just here like:

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I'd still be on firefox if they didn't kill off all the appearance customization options. :(

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That's not a high bar to pass.

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Sweet, I only use 5 of these features, if I can manually turn them on in edge then it might make for a good alternative to the monolithic chrome.

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29 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

When the world faces the decision of migrate to Edge or stay on Chrome and us Firefox users are just here like:

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yup. I ain't changing. Been my browser for ~8 years now.

 

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Chrome can't even play back video without stuttering thanks to the last few versions of WidevineCdm for a lot of my NVIDIA computers. Fullscreen makes it freeze ever 3 seconds. Using a flag to disable direct compression worked until a few weeks ago, but it seems to ignore the flag now. 

 

Youtube is broken on firefox, but at least it doesn't stutter. 

 

 

Browsers these days are a dumpster fire. I don't think this is going to be any better or worse. 

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Eh, Opera still remains the master race browser to me. Yes, it is Chrome based, but user experience is superior IMO

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Have they, and I can not stress this enough, included a proper bookmark bar like Chrome has? Or proper bookmark managing at all. The bookmark system that they had until now was unusable for me.

The ability to google properly is a skill of its own. 

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People want user data sync and ad block though....

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8 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

People want user data sync and ad block though....

Sync is coming and the adblock feature was only for "intrusive" (worth pointing out, intrusive as defined by Google) ads, which were just popups and unmuted autoplay videos.

 

If you really want ad blocking just install ublock origin which you can for the available releases.

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11 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

People want user data sync and ad block though....

It's there... well the option is there but disabled, marked as coming.

As for ad block, you can install any Chrome extention (beside theme related ones) or Edge ones.

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2 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Chrome can't even play back video without stuttering thanks to the last few versions of WidevineCdm for a lot of my NVIDIA computers. Fullscreen makes it freeze ever 3 seconds. Using a flag to disable direct compression worked until a few weeks ago, but it seems to ignore the flag now. 

 

Youtube is broken on firefox, but at least it doesn't stutter. 

 

 

Browsers these days are a dumpster fire. I don't think this is going to be any better or worse. 

Ohhh so that's what happening to my pc with a 1080, RIP youtube videos

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3 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

My Thoughts:

 

I honestly never thought I'd be saying this in my lifetime... but I may actually switch back to Microsoft's web browser. Assuming it can keep full chrome add-in compatibility, better performance, and better battery life that is. I'm mainly waiting on some detailed reports on the data collection Microsoft's Edge is doing versus Google's Chrome. I really think Microsoft made the correct decision.

Did you see what they turned off to get this result though? They disabled the extension store for crying out loud. The performance is only better if they cripple it... if that's your only metric, may I introduce you to surf? I'd be willing to bet it's faster than Chrome and the new Edge... at the cost of every feature that isn't displaying a web page.

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4 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Sweet, I only use 5 of these features, if I can manually turn them on in edge then it might make for a good alternative to the monolithic chrome.

Remember they said replaced OR turned off.

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1 hour ago, Sauron said:

Did you see what they turned off to get this result though? They disabled the extension store for crying out loud. The performance is only better if they cripple it... if that's your only metric, may I introduce you to surf? I'd be willing to bet it's faster than Chrome and the new Edge... at the cost of every feature that isn't displaying a web page.

Turns out that the store has simply been replaced:
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4 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Youtube is broken on firefox, but at least it doesn't stutter.

*sits here and eats popcorn while he watches Youtube on Firefox*

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I believe it when I see it. Most of those "50 things removed" have just been replaced, or is in the process of being replaced, with Microsoft equivalent features which does the same thing. For example Safe browsing is getting replaced by SmartScreen.

And why are people cheering that they have disabled things like AdBlocking? 

 

And I don't believe for a second that it's faster than Chrome until some independent third party tests have been done (as in, not just something a dumbass on Verge says, or a Microsoft employee being paid to say it's better). If it's one thing I've come to realize when talking about browsers, it's that even "tech enthusiasts" doesn't know the first thing about them, and make assumptions which are completely inaccurate all the time. 

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6 hours ago, Quadriplegic said:

Eh, Opera still remains the master race browser to me. Yes, it is Chrome based, but user experience is superior IMO

Yeah, I've been an Opera user for well over 10 years myself, and I have been very happy with it. I'll occasionally use Chrome and Firefox too, but I stick with Opera as my main browser of choice.

 

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Hello everyone,

 

I'd like to take a moment to speak with you about my lord and saviour, Firefox Quantum. Please, take a look at the holy scriptures:

 

https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/

 

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Cpu and ram usage seems to be higher than chrome for me, same load out of active extension as chrome 

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If I wanted a Chrome based browser I'd go back to Opera again which is so underrated and for whatever reason relatively unknown/unused browser. But I prefer Firefox...

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1 hour ago, S w a t s o n said:

Hello everyone,

 

I'd like to take a moment to speak with you about my lord and saviour, Firefox Quantum. Please, take a look at the holy scriptures:

 

https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/

 

Do not be tempted by the false idols, only Firefox can save your bytes from eternal damnation

 

Do these holy scriptures work on stone tablets?

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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Not going to lie, I’m a little excited for this. Maybe a competitor for Netscape finally.

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