OTOH, I'm a devoted Firefox fan BECAUSE IT'S PORTABLE across Windows, Mac, and Linux. I need that. I can never use Edge because it's only available on Windows.
I'd love to see MS port Edge to the other OSes. But hell will freeze over first.
What's your take on this?
I hate Bing, have done everything possible to keep it off my ‘puter. Now Microass wants to keep me from my Firefox ... the war is on.
I don’t care for Edge and don’t use it. I have a cached copy of Pale Moon so I don’t need a browser to find a browser. The more I use Win-10 the less I like it.
1. I don’t use Bing.
2. I had no difficulty installing Firefox and Seamonkey.
Sounds like the bad old days of “Microsoft reminds you that the browser IS part of the operationg system” and made it damn near impossible to get rid of it.
Refuse to use a MS browser, always will. If they are trying to pull this crap, will just stay with Win 7 that much longer.
Fix: Use Google search to find Chrome or Firefox for Windows 10. ;-)
Haven’t had that on my installation of W 10, downloaded and installed Chrome with no problem. However it’s rarely used. Egde is fast and clean. It works great for me as does Cortana.
In fact before Edge Comodo Dragon was my browser of choice but Edge is better.
Bing is also my goto search engine because of the results are usually more what I want.
I do use Google maps and EarthPro but Bing maps often gives seasonal views as you rotated.
Nothing new. bing always did this.
I just found out recently that you can’t even run the Edge browser with UAC turned off. Most power users turn off UAC within a few seconds of their first boot.
“new tactic” — as if microsoft got where they are by any other tactic?
Since I have been on Win10 Chrome keeps freezing with java script enabled
I don’t have direct evidence, but I would bet that Microsoft ports Edge to other operating systems eventually. I doubt there will be much in the way of adoption, but I’d bet it happens. Why? Well, Microsoft is finally getting on board with new features on the server side such as SSH. They want more adoption, not less, so I’d imagine they’ll make that leap. It doesn’t cost them anything other than packaging the product to be platform agnostic, and since Edge is HTML5 compliant, I’d imagine they’re more than halfway there.
I have no problem with a one time message with links to info.
Indeed. I kept the profile folder (right click at top of Firefox window and hit Menu bar, and then hit Help>Troubleshooting.. and then Show Folder) on a separate partition both Windows and Linux can access. Then after FF is installed in Windows I copy the shortcut from the Start Menu to the desktop, then r. clk on it and hit properties, and change it to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -p
Leave out the (x86) and space before it for 32 bit systems. Then i choses to create folder, and choose folder, that being where my profile folders are. More instructions here . Firefox can be downloaded here .
In Linux Ubuntu, Firefox program should be in /usr/lib/firefox Profile should be in /home/your-user-name/.mozilla/firefox,
The political correctness of the Mozilla org however is bad coding, but you can use Pale Moon (a derivative) or Waterfox (for 64 bit systems)
Edge, nor Chrome, can approach the capabilities of Firefox and derivative that its extensions work with for the "power user."
Oh well, probably anyone that wants WX in the first place probably won't mind.
Firefox comes standard with my OS.