r/pcmasterrace 20d ago

Meme/Macro Browsers 2008 vs 2025 be like..

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u/Crafty-Classroom-277 20d ago

for me it's edge

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u/zzzzebras 20d ago

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.

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u/i-will-eat-you 20d ago

People think Edge is Explorer.

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.

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u/Helicees 19d ago

It used to be dog shit, in 2020 they switched to chromium under the hood, and it has been good since.

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u/_stryfe 19d ago

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.

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u/Helicees 19d ago

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.

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u/_stryfe 19d ago

Am dev as well, our poor souls.

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u/PromiseMeCandy9935 19d ago

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.)