Who is still an Edge fan?

Works fine. Turn it off in settings. Point users to your own home page.

Still find it far better than resource hungry chrome, homepage can be a mess unless tuned, and I actually find the right rail and new features useful

I too thought it was nice when they first switch to chromium. But now it's a bloated mess. And yes, it's easy to turn some of these features off, but then every couple of days they seem to nag me about turning certain things back on or using their "recommended settings". I switched to Brave and just turn off their crypto ads and turn on aggressive ad blocking and call it a day. But I obviously don't require the same settings you as an admin that is coordinating a business rollout.

As others have said, just turn those things off and it’s fine after about 10 minutes of tuning …. My edge homepage is always just some video of some beautiful landscape, with nothing else on the screen except the search bar. I tend to have an excessive number of tabs and tab groups opened at once and never have performance issues even on my weak work PC. All those recommended articles and clickbait things have been out of sight out of mind for me for at least a year. I have to actively seek out news

I still use it. I can give you 12 reasons in my domain where Edge is much better than Chrome:

(1.) Ability to resume pdf files from where I left.

(2.) BingAI, more accurate than Bard in providing more up-to-date information.

(3.) News feed and quick weather check.

(4.) Built-in OneNote feed with embedded sticky notes.

(5.) I use OneDrive more than Google Drive and more Microsoft apps in general. So better integration.

(6.) Edge on mobile has a built-in ad-blocker. Never encountered a single ad since day one.

(7.) I like beautiful Bing daily images.

(8.) Purchased a study lamp from Amazon the other day from Microsoft Rewards.

(9.) Eden Reforestation Projects planted a real tree for me in Kenya because I used MSN Weather and E-Tree in Microsoft Edge.

(10.) Edge saves battery. It has aesthetic mica effect similar to (or even better than) Safari on MacOS.

(11.) Edge is based on Chromium so I can use Chrome extensions in it anytime. Also it is extremely well integrated with Windows widgets and search, not to mention Collections and online saved images feature.

(12.) Edge respects your online privacy more than Chrome. Those double-shields actually work in real life which are missing in Chrome!

I've disabled pretty much everything you mentioned. I hated the side bar initially, but I like it for quick access to Bing Chat and Image Creator.

Bloated junk, yes...but you can disable it all.

disable all fancy things and it work like a charm

annoying that microsoft keep adding bullshit but they can all be disabled

Curious if anyone knows of a simple “turn off all the crap and keep it turned off” plugin or tool? Agree with the comments here, but love to automate having the good parts of Edge and nothing else if possible. Thanks in advance!

I honestly do not know what you're talking about, and Edge is the only browser I use. Are you talking about on the search pages? And that strip of icons on the right? (I barely notice them.) I've also never had it try to rearrange my browser tabs. I'm not crapping on your comment, I just genuinely have no idea how what you're saying is happening, except on the search results page. Those are always crap.

If ypu disable it all, it's still better in memory management than Chrome, so I'm sticking with Edge. I've been even trying to go back to Chrome on mobile, and gosh that was an awful experience.

I loved the early albums but he has sadly become very formulaic

I have my work profile and my personal profile, and each is open in its own instance of Edge. Links will open by default in the more recently active profile. So, when working all the links from email and Teams open in my work profile. When I'm not all the links open in my personal profile. This is a better workflow than managing two browsers or trying to manage two MS profiles inside the webapp.

Vivaldi!

I need to put some magic words in the register to make the fat Bing button disappear and I installed the add-on Tabliss to don't see again the Bing new tab tabloid. Also, I'm using the Brave search engine for specific searches, because I can use their customizable filters called goggles to search only into specific pages. That it has been a better solution for me than unreliable answers of Bing chat or whatever AI.

I use edge. I stiil have chrome installed byt hardly ever use it

The clickbait homepage is really bad. I know I could have something come up, but it looks really bad if you want to try the browser and you're immediately exposed to this. I'm sure MS gets a ton of complaints, but then they look at the revenue and dismiss them.

The browser itself works fine though, and I started pulling it up from time to time, when a website malfunctioned in Chrome. I'll give them credit, the problem sites always work in Edge.

I still miss the original, faster, rendering engine, but it's a great browser for me. I don't even know what you're trying to say with your list of complaints