Microsoft capitulates: Edge to be replaced with Chromium-based browser
windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromiu...Posted Dec 4, 2018, 4:51 AM UTC
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God damnit Microsoft there’s another open source browser that contains much more ethical code how could you do this? I defended your anti competitive practices in the 90s because I thought the end user experience was worth it but between this and making an electron based code editor I think I’m finally switching to Linux.
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I mean, if they couldn't just rewrite EdgeHTML/Chakra in Rust (the golden standard for The Right Choice™), this was the least they could do.
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#PRAGMA unjerk
or use mozilla's servo rendering engine written in
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, plus its open sauce and free
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, plus its open sauce and free
Can you use it while being amoral, though?
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Using a morally upright product to immoral ends is even more amoral since you're debasing the original morality, hth
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Are you seriously using a non-apple pc for your work? Do they even have XCode on windows?
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Looks like some people aren’t jerking enough!
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This sounds really unlikely, but big if true.
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Blink/V8 is the new IE 8-o
Scratch that.
Blink/V8 is the new Wintel. =8-O
Wellcome to the new monoculture. SeeSharp guys are gonna luv it (I'll personally love how they'll start plugging Turbo's Crypt few years down the road).
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This is peak Microsoft: Yeah our browser is almost usable after 4 years ... Well time to replace it
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The worst part is it was always only a little bit away from being usable. Oh, well. I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
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Stunning visuals, m8
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Well it's clearly because Edge is trying to protect you from the chans.
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Edge: best browser to play hide and seek with.
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At least it's written in C++ instead of Rust.
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How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?
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Brave? You mean F E A R L E S S?
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I like a good controversy. When you look at my "history" you will find quite a lot of serious criticism about Rust. Most of all funded.
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You say that like it's a good thing thing.
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it was written by non-weenie-heads so yes
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/j delet this
/uj delet this
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CIRCLEJERKCEPTION!
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Next step replace the Windows UI with KDE.
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Soooo only MODERN FULL FLEDGED browser left that will not fuck up your battery is... Safari?
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Except the new versions have this "all extensions must be apps for some reason, and also fuck ad blockers" policy. So no.
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base::Unretained(kEdge);
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Firefox got cucked
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Chakra > v8
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>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
>Chrome is draining your battery faster
Ok Chrome is good now
I mean it's like chrome, with a candy crush plugin so it must be good.
They're not wrong, but it's improved a lot, since Google's dropped the only metric being: How fast can it open to a web page, with nothing else running? Which translates to: Use ALL the resources!