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My god! Microsoft Edge is a work of art!

I am not aware of any 'mobile' version of Macrumors. Maybe I've been lucky or my router config blocks that attempt to disable all that garbage mobile first mentality have worked so far?

BTW am I the only one who reads the title of this thread and hears the Bride of Pin-Bot voice saying "MY GOD! She's alive!" ?
 
jasonmvp said:
I'm experimenting with Edge on my Mac and I've noticed an annoying interaction between it and MacRumors. Specifically, it appears as though MacRumors is sending me a mobile version of itself? Something like that. There are massive margins on the left and right side of the main forum screen, compressing the text within them to hell. As if it expects me to be looking at it with a crappy mobile device.

When I open the site in Firefox, the L/R margins are a lot more manageable and the text is much less compressed. I wondered if it was a user-agent thing, but nothing I've changed it to seems to fix that.

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Something dumb that I'm missing, perhaps? That's a lot of wasted space.
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Not seeing that with latest Edge on MBA M1. Try 'Reset Settings'. Anything that randomizes your browser fingerprint may have an affect on that so disable any privacy extension.
 
jasonmvp said:
I'm experimenting with Edge on my Mac and I've noticed an annoying interaction between it and MacRumors. Specifically, it appears as though MacRumors is sending me a mobile version of itself? Something like that. There are massive margins on the left and right side of the main forum screen, compressing the text within them to hell. As if it expects me to be looking at it with a crappy mobile device.

When I open the site in Firefox, the L/R margins are a lot more manageable and the text is much less compressed. I wondered if it was a user-agent thing, but nothing I've changed it to seems to fix that.

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Something dumb that I'm missing, perhaps? That's a lot of wasted space.
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Try scrolling right to the bottom of the page, and select 'Fluid HD' in the left corner.
 
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Falhófnir said:
Try scrolling right to the bottom of the page, and select 'Fluid HD' in the left corner.
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Dig it!

The crux of the problem were the fonts, I think. Because I'm blind (what? I said I'm blind. WHAT?!) I had the Edge default font set to "Large". That as opposed to just CMD +'ing in each site I visit. The Macrumors Forum didn't react well to that at all. Reset it to "Normal", reloaded, and CMD +'d to a better zoom (WHAAAT? I said I'm BLIND!) and voila.

But the Fluid HD makes it even better! Thanks for that!
 
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jasonmvp said:
Dig it!

The crux of the problem were the fonts, I think. Because I'm blind (what? I said I'm blind. WHAT?!) I had the Edge default font set to "Large". That as opposed to just CMD +'ing in each site I visit. The Macrumors Forum didn't react well to that at all. Reset it to "Normal", reloaded, and CMD +'d to a better zoom (WHAAAT? I said I'm BLIND!) and voila.

But the Fluid HD makes it even better! Thanks for that!
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I had something similar when using certain scaled resolutions, that setting seems to help a lot with HiDPI monitors!
 
I have a different issue with Edge on Big Sur. My profile > password screen is blank to turn off offer to save password. Did a complete uninstall and reinstall and it's still blank (used to work at one point) so ended up removing Edge completely. Edge works fine on Windows x64 and Windows on ARM though. Chrome is still best on Big Sur.

Update: Known bug that will be fixed with next Edge update.
 
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I use it for development, but Firefox for everything else. I don't want to live in a Chromium only web.
 
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Personally I'm very uninterested in using a browser controlled by a company with profit motives beyond solely giving people a way to access the internet safely and securely. Browsers and web technology in general are meant to be interoperable standards accessible and usable by anyone. Microsoft have a history of taking open standards and systems and extending them with 'new technology' that just so happens to only be compatible with their proprietary systems controlled by them.
 
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Just to add for anyone that used Firefox in the past, it has now caught up a lot in performance as they managed to offload a lot of the rendering to the GPU.

I recently came back to Firefox and it really is my favourite now, especially with the new floating tabs "Photon UI", much more modern looking than Chrome.
 
Here's what Luke and Linus have to say about it, and I like what they have to say, it does describe my thoughts

 
I love Edge, but fell the end of the road for that browser for me personally in a few more years.
i odnt see me upgrading to 11 and ios15 put those 3 view dots to impede Edge, etc.
Safari can only go to 14 for me, which is okay now.
so
in 2024 i might need another browser to replace Safari and edge.
hopefully waterford still exists.
(Brave is Boring)

And Edge does get ad or coupon pushy and sneaks news stories in my homepage once in a while.
 
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maflynn said:
Here's what Luke and Linus have to say about it, and I like what they have to say, it does describe my thoughts

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"Joking" about how on 2 people use the Edge browser got old after the 4th them they said it. But then to go on and complain about a browser that only 2 people use doesn't make sense. I expected better of Linus but I shouldn't, given his recent Linux experience videos.

I've been using Edge as my primary browser for the past 4 months or so. It is the leanest of the Chromium-based browsers that I've found that work on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. But I agree, that baking in payday-lender-like functionality is just flat-out wrong and dumb. (technically it isn't like a payday loan, but it feels predatory in the same way)

It really is disappointing that Microsoft would do this... not surprising in light of their move to make it more difficult to change the default browser in Windows 11.

But for now it is "planned" which is corporate-speak for "trial balloon to test the public's reaction". (similar to what Apple did with CSAM)
 
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maflynn said:
smh,
Users revolt as Microsoft bolts a short-term financing app onto Edge,
Edge users aren’t happy about Microsoft’s built-in ‘buy now, pay later’ tool

I use edge on occasion but now, I'll be sure to avoid it completely. From what I've heard its a an automatic opt-in for vendors, that its trying to buy something on edge, will seemingly go right to this option
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i hav noticed Edge being pushy to get me to spend money
and promote aspects of the internet i chosen not to see, like top news stories in USA.
which i detest.
I hav noticed that Windows 11 is a step towards silly simplicity and commercialism compared to 10
 
I'll just keep using Firefox as always for my private needs. Edge is only for development as Chromium ships with the superior development tools imo.

We need Firefox because of **** like that. Megacorps don't spend millions for a browser just for fun.
 
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sracer said:
I expected better of Linus
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LOL, he's just joking around - of course there's more then 2 users of edge - there's 3 :p

Seriously though, given how MS has windows reporting stuff back to the mothership, I can't say that I'm surprised but sadly I am - this is a really bad move and look for MS.

I never really embraced edge, mostly due to inertia, and I'm glad I didn't. I've used it, here or there but nothing full on
 
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maflynn said:
LOL, he's just joking around - of course there's more then 2 users of edge - there's 3 :p

Seriously though, given how MS has windows reporting stuff back to the mothership, I can't say that I'm surprised but sadly I am - this is a really bad move and look for MS.

I never really embraced edge, mostly due to inertia, and I'm glad I didn't. I've used it, here or there but nothing full on
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I'm now in the process of switching back to Chrome... because it's just a matter of time before Microsoft does something with Edge that'll force me to leave. Better to do it now on my terms than at a time of Microsoft's choosing.

I MIGHT keep Edge around only for the added Bing search bonus. That's only 20 points a day, but those points add up. But then again, I'm probably one of only 3 people who still game the Bing rewards system for Amazon gift cards. :D
 
sracer said:
because it's just a matter of time before Microsoft does something with Edge
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For me, it was this.

sracer said:
I MIGHT keep Edge around
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Can you uninstall it? I just assumed you can't. I know Linus was half joking about only using Edge to download Chrome, but truth be told that's mostly what I've used it for. I use it at work when I needed two separate browser open at the same time to test stuff
 
maflynn said:
LOL, he's just joking around - of course there's more then 2 users of edge - there's 3 :p

Seriously though, given how MS has windows reporting stuff back to the mothership, I can't say that I'm surprised but sadly I am - this is a really bad move and look for MS.

I never really embraced edge, mostly due to inertia, and I'm glad I didn't. I've used it, here or there but nothing full on
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Isn't this what we said was going to most likely happen with Edge, as it does all browsers?

1. Start off with a lean, super fast, incredible experience.
2. Start slowly adding bloatware... I mean "features" that benefit said corporation of the browser
3. Browser turns into less of a web browser and more of a way to lock you in to their system

I still love Edge for MacOS and use it strictly for my work - but I've been using Safari as well for personal use and it's been fantastic as well.
 
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maflynn said:
For me, it was this.


Can you uninstall it? I just assumed you can't. I know Linus was half joking about only using Edge to download Chrome, but truth be told that's mostly what I've used it for. I use it at work when I needed two separate browser open at the same time to test stuff
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I use (soon to be past tense) Edge on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. I can't uninstall it on my Windows systems, but I have that option on Linux and Mac OS.

This makes things a bit easier for me since I have chromebooks in the mix... going back to Chrome makes things seamless switching between my systems.
 
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sracer said:
I use (soon to be past tense) Edge on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. I can't uninstall it on my Windows systems, but I have that option on Linux and Mac OS.

This makes things a bit easier for me since I have chromebooks in the mix... going back to Chrome makes things seamless switching between my systems.
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The only problem with Google Crome on any Mac Intel or M1+ is major memory hog! Your better off go with a chromium browser on a Mac to keep a handle of your RAM!
 
satcomer said:
The only problem with Google Crome on any Mac Intel or M1+ is major memory hog! Your better off go with a chromium browser on a Mac to keep a handle of your RAM!
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Thats not a problem for me... Chrome on my Intel iMac is NOT a major memory hog. But then again, I'm judicious in the extensions I use and don't get freaked out if Chrome uses as much RAM as a word processor.
 
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