An even faster Microsoft Edge

An interesting aside here about moving away from React to Web Components was a big part of their improvement it seems.

This blog highlights one of the reasons I’m so skeptical about AI replacing software engineers. All of the analysis, decision to put forth telemetry and build that system, then take the results and figure out how to redo the UI (and decide to make that a priority)… I don’t see any path towards this in the near term using AI.

I once switched from Firefox to Chrome on old PCs because Firefox felt intolerably slow. I still use some of these PCs, including semi-old ones on which Firefox feels tolerably slow so I use Firefox. I expected Edge to be at least as as fast as Chrome but no, it feels more slow than Firefox. It also asks many questions (no, I don't want to make it the default nor to sign-in, nor to let it itself cookie-track me, and this still is not everything it asks about) every time it updates.

Is Edge still sending all URLs and images to Microsoft by default?

I was using it for a long time for enterprise stuff but the same happened with Edge what happened with Windows: it became bloated and annoying and it’s too much work to turn off all privacy intrusive features.

The fastest way to download Firefox yet!

Did Microsoft invent their own XUL?

I'm using Edge on one of the company's computers and it's decent. Not to compare to the ol' Explorer.

Dev tools lags in Edge. That being said, I probably trust Google more than Microsoft with my personal data

I've been an Edge user since release. As Google dominates the Internet commercial spyware business, Chrome isn't an option I'm comfortable with. I used Firefox for a couple of years, but unfortunately it really fell behind in performance, at least on Windows. So Edge it is - and to be honest, I'm pretty happy with its performance, stability and privacy customizations (including the private VPN I use for the Google Search, as using Google Search from a regular VPN service gives me annoying "bot" challenges).

I don&#x27;t care if you get a puppy with every Edge based Bing search, I&#x27;m not using the browser that you&#x27;re shoving down my throat and up my hind end so hard they&#x27;re meeting in the middle.<p>If M$ didn&#x27;t make it so that exchange email exports only worked in Edge, I would never use it at all.

&gt; Edge monitors its UI responsiveness via telemetry collected from end users’ machines. We intentionally did this collection for all the parts of the Edge UI, not just for the web pages that we render. What did we learn from this data?<p>Building a lot of spying is one option<p>Another could be to simply get a &quot;a device without an SSD or with less than 8GB RAM!&quot;, launch the app and observe all the slow glory yourself<p>And yet another is doing a bit more architecture design work upfront and... not use React in the first place instead of doing rewrites

I started using Edge due to work being on the msft suite and I’ve been positively impressed with its performance. It handles way better than Chrome, especially with multiple tabs.

It’s even faster if you avoid a product with Microsoft bloat. What they’re been doing to Windows 11 with widgets, celebrity news, and failing to respect user’s default preferences is atrocious.

Why doesn&#x27;t Microsoft realize that Edge just isn&#x27;t happening?<p>I was a *<i>huge*</i> Microsoft fan boy for decades. Like, I eagerly awaited releases of the products I used like Windows and Visual Studio and Excel and on and on. It was thrilling to use NT with the Windows 95 skin when it was available in beta. Sorry to nerd out so hard, but I just loved their products. Now they&#x27;re just making Windows worse and worse and worse. It&#x27;s almost as if they want to harm Windows.<p>The other day I had to help my 80 year old Dad with his Windows PC. Microsoft wanted him to &quot;finish&quot; setting up his PC that he has been using for 18 months. Okay, he accidentally clicked yes and then ended up somewhere that was trying to make him sign up for a Microsoft account. Yeah, my Dad doesn&#x27;t even know how to do that! We had to turn off his PC to get out of it and then I had to look up how to make sure it never happens again.<p>Why so many dark patterns MS? My Dad already paid you for Windows. Why do you need to collect more and more and more? HE&#x27;S 80 YEARS OLD! LEAVE HIM THE F** ALONE!<p>As a result of all this, but especially the telemetry, my Dad&#x27;s on Google docs, my Mom is on Google docs, my family is on Google docs. Never going to use 360. Nope nope nope. Sure, Google has dark patterns, but at least I know that about Google. Microsoft pretends that they aren&#x27;t like that, or wants to have that brand image, and meanwhile, they&#x27;re busy trying to suck up all your personal information and spy on you with telemetry and send your keystrokes to their servers.<p>The funny thing is that my Dad only had a Windows PC so he can run one app: Chrome. His entire internet life is in Chrome. Everything syncs with his phone. It&#x27;s just NICE. You can&#x27;t even imagine how much easier this makes his life and ... mine :)<p>So yeah, I don&#x27;t want more Microsoft software in my life. I want less. Zero, would be ideal, but that&#x27;s not the world I live in.<p>Yet.