Yeah it's running on the Chromium engine. I actually unironically like it quite a bit too.
I used Brave on Windows for the last few years. I like brave but a lot of sites stopped working on it. I know Microsoft is better than Google but it does do some advertisements. I use bing and duck duck go for my search engines.
I cannot figure out why the default password manager just doesn't work on Edge...?!I installed Ghostery for Edge and it is working great, no annoying pop-up ads or normal ads on websites. Microsoft has quite a few Ad-Blockers, like AdBlock, Adblock Plus (Beta), and uBlock Origin among others.
Here is a list of the Ad-Blockers & Password Managers for macOS Edge:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/category/EdgeExtensionsPasswordManagers
Here is a list of all extensions for macOS Edge:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/insider-addons/category/EdgeExtensions
Enjoy!
I would like to agree with you, but you would think competition would inspire Apple to give us better keyboards.....Haha, nahh...Chrome is a trap for Google to spy on you (I have never even installed Chrome on any of my devices) so I usually have Firefox installed as my backup browser to Safari. Safari does not like to play nice with some of the websites I go to, especially the DirecTV NOW website, so I would use Firefox to go to websites that do not work well with Safari. I must say though that I welcome Microsoft developing a browser for Mac again, and even though these are Dev/Canary builds, they are extremely reliable and very fast...at least in my usage.
Competition never hurt, if anything it *should* motivate Apple to give us better builds of Safari, with better and more features.
I might even consider uninstalling Firefox and just keeping Edge as my backup browser.
I remember the days where I used Internet Explorer on Mac, as well as Netscape navigator. Those were the days lol.I am going to have to find the website I read some of this information off of, however, I know that Microsoft will be adding bigger features coming up, such as Dark Mode. I actually believe it was right after Edge installed, it listed off about 6-8 things that were not in this release, like dark mode, but promised they would work hard to get the features to us as fast as possible. I swore one of the yet to be unreleased features I read about was, about redesigning and tweaking how bookmarks work and are shown in Edge, honestly cannot remember any of the other ones. Also, take this with a grain of sale because I cannot remember if I read after the install of Edge or on some tech website or both, but it was not our beloved MacRumors!
I will try and find the article for you or if you do uninstall for some reason and then re-install it, you will see the list of features they are working on.
PS: How do you like Edge for macOS? I like it, not as much as Safari obviously, but for being developer builds Edge is extraordinarily fast and stable as I have yet to have any technical problem with the browser. Just curious what you think?
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Yeah, the whole keyboard issue is just a mess and I think it really has to do with Apple being so damn stubborn! They do not want to admit when they create something that breaks under normal usage, truly unacceptable. I do not really have an answer for you on that, except, what I said to start off, their stubbornness!
Now, with the Safari/Edge issue, if Microsoft puts way better features in Edge and Safari does not, I feel like we might see a mass exodus to Edge. I mean, even though these are Canary & Dev. builds, they run fast as can be AND they are stable as h*ll. From what my buddies have told me (who all use Macs) is that Edge even in Canary or Developer build is much stabler than the current version of Chrome. I cannot comment on this, as I have never installed Chrome on any of my Macs OR iPhones/iPads.
I have put Edge through its passes and never once did it crash.
That and living off free AOL trial cd's... also AOL cd artwork using nothing but free trial cd's to make collages.Haha, I remember the "Browser Wars." A lot of people thought Netscape was going to win that at first, however, then obviously Internet Explorer 4 (if I recall correctly) took over when Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer 4 with Windows 98.
I actually used Netscape Navigator a lot more than I.E. until it just came bundled with Windows. That is when Netscape's market share declined rapidly...if I remember correctly. Heck, it was 20 years ago or so for me, haha.
I also of course remember, AOL Instant Messenger! One of the best ways to communicate in high school and college to send mass messages about a party or something like that. Myself and most of my friends in college had Nextel, so we could just "Chirp" each other to get peoples attention. I really liked Nextel, it worked in A LOT of places that Verizon, Cingular (AT&T), and Sprint absolutely would not. Back then T-Mobile hardly worked anywhere, and was by far the worst carrier: A non-factor completely.
