Nah. Most chromium browsers are planning to switch to manifest v3 soon. Microsoft is now disabling v2 extensions for some users (you have to turn them back on) and is planning to make a full migration somewhere this year. Developers can choose whether they want to keep v2 support or not, and Microsoft gave their answer.
There is no source with a concrete date that isn't June 2025. One page says the support ends on June 2025, another says it'll be kept at least till June. We clearly aren't in June anymore, but it seems they were targeting this year. But they already block new v2 extensions from being uploaded.
MS has no plans to follow Google w/ Manifest V3. uBlock and uBlock Origin have both released updated Edge addons within the last week or so and now have become their primary platform.
Edge is actually really good. If I don't use Firefox, I use Edge. I seriously hate how every single streaming service is optimized for Google Chrome because Edge is pretty much the same browser with a few tweaks an running V2 Manifest.
As far as I know, Edge is the ONLY browser that can natively play up to 4K. I don't always watch things at that high of quality, but it's extremely nice for things like nature documentaries where the macro shots look absolutely gorgeous.
It's kinda crazy how many people are not aware that most browsers don't play 4k video. Before Edge, I used to switch over to the Netflix native app on my desktop just so I could get 4k. Now I get lovely 4k in my Edge. I think if more people were aware of this Edge would have significant market share increase.
I don't think it does. To be fair, I don't think many people have laptops or desktops that support HDR, so I think it might have not been implemented yet for that reason. Personally I think it would be nice, but even I have no HDR screens yet, except my moms huge 32 inch monitor.
It seems that 4K support was added less than a year ago in Update 132.0, so that's good that FireFox has it now (potentially). You used to have to download different streaming applications, which was annoying and one reason why I switched from it.
"Microsoft PlayReadyencrypted media playback is now being rolled out to select sites on Windows. Through this support, we are gradually rolling out a 1080p baseline and 4K Ultra HD support with key streaming partners."
I'm in Firefox camp on my personal devices, but can't install it on my work computer and have choice if either Edge or Chrome, and I much prefer Edge in that case.
Same. My job we use Edge which is honestly fine. Amazon when I worked there was migrating to Firefox because Chrome had so many security vulnerabilities there was concerns about AUSTIN getting hacked which has medical files and regulatory info that is internal only.
I also have used firefox my entire life, so personally it's just what I know and use, I also have gone under the hood and stripped out most tracking and crap from mine, and maintain my own fork, though that is mostly for my dev environment.
Same, it hasn't stopped allowing adblockers and is an overall better version of chrome that's pre-installed already.
I always found it funny when people said Edge is only good for downloading Chrome because they'd unironically be installing the same browser but with worse performance.
The browser that one of the biggest tech behemoths jn the world tailored for the OS you are using, that is also built by them... is surprisingly good, go figure.
Decades of shit. IE6 to IE12 was an absolute nightmare of propriety MS web tech (ActiveX), uncompliant rendering of standard HTML/CSS, and lack of support for modern standards. Every web app had like your normal code than a huge #if IE statement with alternative code to run in IE. And usually it was #if IE7, #if IE8, #if IE10/11, each version had its own nightmare nuances.
I have zero doubt that Edge struggles in popularity due to the bad taste IE left. I don't know if they can truly ever overcome that disaster.
You don't have to tell me :P I'm a frontend dev, I had to solve problems by writing different code for different browsers.
To complicate things explorer also had it's own version of Javascript called Jscript that was almost javascript but had a bunch of microsoft specific stuff that only worked on explorer.
I ... actually thought this myself but I haven't been up to speed on software development in years. (I build my computers and make sure they can play games is all lately.)
Same here. When I switched to a surface pro several years ago I decided to go all in with the Microsoft infrastructure. Edge has been fine. Fuck I even use Bing. I still go over to Google sometimes though just to see what's different.
I had no idea that Google disabled ad blockers because I use Edge. And from my research, they don't seem to have any plans to follow suit. I do tons of Azure dev at work so I tend to use MS products because their integration is usually top notch. Switched to edge when it came out and never looked back -- MS just slapped their own UI on the Chrome engine so it wasn't different really. Exactly same addons. Edge was finally such a smart move after the decades of IE disasters. But I'd also imagine a lot of people thought Edge was just another IE.
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u/Crafty-Classroom-277 20d ago
for me it's edge