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1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

Does this also affect IE11?

 

A relative I know uses IE11 very extensively. Even after I tried to move her to Edge.

That I do not know. 

4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

You'd be surprised, public banks here in Brazil all demand you to use IE since their "security plugin" only works on it.

Security Plugin via IE? Plugins in IE also known as ActiveX and BHO are notorious for vulnerabilities because they run with high privileges not to mention too much system resources. 

 

I guess I'm lucky the bank I trust doesn't force me to use IE at all. 

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6 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

If people followed procedure for submitting bugs to Microsoft then we wouldn't need this to brought up whilst it is not fixed yet.

 

Isn't that the reason why telemetry exists?

Oh wait yeah I forgot, it's done to sell your data, not fix errors like Microsoft says.

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Wish other browsers ran as nicely on an Intel Atom as Edge though. Never got hardware acceleration to work properly in Chrome or Firefox.

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2 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

How come so many don't like Edge?

Because it's terrible.

It has gotten a lot better with updates, but it still has a ton of drawbacks and lack of functionality. At least that's how it was before the Creator's update. I haven't felt like torturing myself in the last couple of weeks so I have not tried it out since then.

 

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

So, I should use FireFox until this issue is fixed?

You could also just not use the password manager.

Or better yet, not use Edge at all.

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50 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

When I registered for my Social Security few years ago, it asked me to use Internet Explorer. ?

 

I don't think the three banks I transact with required me to use IE at all. 

Every time i want to pay the water bill online the water company wants me to use IE. Now i just go out and pay it at the post office

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11 minutes ago, Darth Revan said:

Isn't that the reason why telemetry exists?

Oh wait yeah I forgot, it's done to sell your data, not fix errors like Microsoft says.

Telemetry is not the same as data collection. You misunderstand what it is you are saying versus what you mean.

 

Telemetry is at it's heart, crash information, OS version, OS builds, app version. Error reporting mechanisms.

 

Data collection outside of that is not telemetry. It is simply data collection.

 

Edge uses telemetry and relies on people to report findings to MS so they can fix issues. If you have a problem with this then you fundamentally should have a problem with every major piece of software you use.

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This is why we use Chrome. Now please MS leave, We don't want your browser 

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27 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Telemetry is not the same as data collection. You misunderstand what it is you are saying versus what you mean.

Telemetry is data collection...

Its definition of telemetry is the transmission of data collected at a remote location.

 

41 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Telemetry is at it's heart, crash information, OS version, OS builds, app version. Error reporting mechanisms.

and much, much more if you ask Microsoft.

 

41 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Edge uses telemetry and relies on people to report findings to MS so they can fix issues. If you have a problem with this then you fundamentally should have a problem with every major piece of software you use.

You're making a very big (and false) assumption that the programs I use all have telemetry and other data collection. At worst, the programs I use have it as opt-out. A lot of them has it as opt-in and the rest don't have it at all.

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Fixes come for sure.

I use Opera and Vivaldi though.

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I never use Password Managers to begin with, they cant be trusted as it is; if it is coded it can be broken. 

I will still use edge as I like the UI vs other Browsers. 

 

7 hours ago, LAwLz said:

You're making a very big (and false) assumption that the programs I use all have telemetry and other data collection. At worst, the programs I use have it as opt-out. A lot of them has it as opt-in and the rest don't have it at all.

*cough* Bullshit *cough* Today all software has some kind of telemetry built in.

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1 minute ago, SansVarnic said:

I never use Password Managers to begin with, they cant be trusted as it is; if it is coded it can be broken. 

I will still use edge as I like the UI vs other Browsers. 

You like the odd position of the URL bar on a new tab?

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11 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

You like the odd position of the URL bar on a new tab?

Yes. At first I wasn't sure but after a few minutes I liked it better than where it was before.

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Has a more fluid feel to it some how ... not sure how to explain that but it works for me.

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11 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

How come so many don't like Edge?

because people dont like change, the lack of add ON's is annoying. 

 

for me its the GUI I'm not sure what it just doesn't feel right with a keyboard and mouse.

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11 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I use Edge on a daily basis.

 

How come so many don't like Edge?

I have to admit that I haven't used Edge since W10 was first released, so it might be better now, but the two big things that bugged me were the download manager on it and the URL/Search bar locations.

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2 minutes ago, WMGroomAK said:

I have to admit that I haven't used Edge since W10 was first released, so it might be better now, but the two big things that bugged me were the download manager on it and the URL/Search bar locations.

Yeah it sucked pretty bad at first but I find it to be much improved since. Still needs more add-on support but it s is getting there.

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rip.  here I thought it was better than IE in some way... seems it's actually cancer too

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15 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I dislike Vivaldi as well.

 

Firefox is semi ok but it's got it's own issues.

 

I use Edge on a daily basis.

 

How come so many don't like Edge?

I use edge ONLY for LTT 

@Ryan_Vickers ONLY LTT

 

as long as LTT doesn't get hijacked.. My LTT password won't. 

 

Because EDGE ONLY USED FOR LTT

 

 

.. I use edge on a daily basis also..

and dislike Vivaldi .. Because it doesn't have iOS support. That's it. Fuck Chrome otherwise 

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4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

I use edge ONLY for LTT 

@Ryan_Vickers ONLY LTT

 

as long as LTT doesn't get hijacked.. My LTT password won't. 

 

Because EDGE ONLY USED FOR LTT

 

 

.. I use edge on a daily basis also..

and dislike Vivaldi .. Because it doesn't have iOS support. That's it. Fuck Chrome otherwise 

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Just now, JoostinOnline said:

Thank you for repeating it a billion times, that was very helpful. 9_9

shh :) maybe he doesn't get it until I tag him on LTT about it..

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Back to Opera for me...

 

At least it has VPN built-in...

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10 minutes ago, themctipers said:

and dislike Vivaldi .. Because it doesn't have iOS support. That's it. Fuck Chrome otherwise 

Opera...

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16 minutes ago, themctipers said:

I use edge ONLY for LTT 

@Ryan_Vickers ONLY LTT

 

as long as LTT doesn't get hijacked.. My LTT password won't. 

What?  No, that's not how this works...

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8 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Opera...

shitty iOS app

the UI is disgusting. 

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

What?  No, that's not how this works...

then how does it work? All I'm seeing is; if you on a site with this JavaScript , you'll get hijacked 

but, the only website I use on edge was and still is edge.. I only use edge for LTT since Chrome ram leaks 

so as long as LTT doesn't get hijacked, my LTT password (I assume how this works is that it'll take it somehow.. Don't have it in edge's password manager) won't get stolen 

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