I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?
EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂
I don’t use it as its proprietary and spyware
Nah it’s proprietary garbage. If it weren’t proprietary it would be an option (although in that case a “deMicrosofted” version would be better). there are free Chromium browsers and free browsers that aren’t chromium, this one offers nothing of interest.
I have it on Steam Deck since it can be launched with a CLI argument to force a 1280x800 window.
Vivaldi pretends to be Edge when visiting Bing to unlock GPT-4, and prefer that to Edge on my other devices. (Secondary to Firefox, ofc)
No… I don’t want to use a browser made by Microsoft. They will turn it to shit as soon as they can get away with it, and I’m happy with Firefox.
Yes, because I am forced to use M$ Teams.
and it doesn’t work in firefox
MS Teams work in Firefox over here.
Joining calls doesn’t work for me, tried it again a couple of days ago.
Discord, Jitsi, Google Meet, Nextcloud Talk and everything else works fine in Firefox, only teams refuses to work.
That’s very strange… Submit a big report then.
Strange. The other day I had a call on Teams with a customer and had no problems using Firefox 117.0 on NixOS, but I recall that some months ago some features (like microphone and screensharing) where unavailable.
Maybe Microsoft hasn’t rolled out the update in your region/org?
My org is slow to get updates, that might be it
edit: tried call from M$ Teams today and got the popup saying :
Try a different browser This feature isn’t available yet for your browser. Try the web app with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, or switch to the desktop app.
And then a download link
I’m on FF117 on Fedora (F38)
Second edit:
changing User-Agents worked to remove the popup, but crashed FF instead
You could use the msteams flatpak
dies of cringe
Probably a godsend if you’re a web dev. No more rebooting or running a second PC/VM for compatibility checking.
isn’t it just chromium though?
Yes it is, but with extra Microsoft!
How most comments are either “I use X anyways” or “Edge seems to be a decent browser”
It is not. Has no tracking protection at all and itself tracks you a hell lot.
Its just a browser, no need to be tracked, for what in reverse? The same with Chrome, I dont get it?
Here is some actual MITM traffic analysis. Use Firefox Translate to translate.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/microsoft-edge-datensendeverhalten-desktop-version-browser-check-teil4/
In my opinion no proprietary browser is worth using.
Chrome isn’t better in any way than Edge, as both don’t respect it’s users privacy and decisions (dark patterns, etc).
I agree.
If a browser ain’t open source, I ain’t gonna use it and neither should anyone else.
Yes. I’m mostly developing a website, and testing on another browser is necessary every now and then. But that is my only use reason.
My main browser used to be firefox till tw9 weeks qgo, but it started to be buggy so it’s LibreWolf now.
I use it as the only browser for work. I don’t have choices, because Teams and Outlook with all its’ functionality works well only in their own browser, edge…
I even write some userscript to improve it because it’s broken… :/
Yep, I use for Xbox cloud gaming on steam deck.
I use Edge on Linux as my user agent in Firefox on Windows just so I can give some engineers a laugh.
@cujo
Hi,
no, Edge will be never use on my laptopI don’t use it for browsing but only for two use cases :
- Editing PDFs. Firefox does it, but stupidly if you reopen the file you can’t edit previous edits. Like you write something on the pdf, turn off your computer, a day later you want to edit the text, you can’t. But Edge remembers text blocks and you can edit even after you reopen the file. That’s why I use it
- Bing Chat
It has a really good implementation of vertical tabs. Vivaldi and Firefox are somewhat close, but they’re not nearly as polished.
Brave has the closest comparison I’ve seen, they just don’t do auto hiding.
Compared to sidebery plugin (ff)?
Dragging tabs around and to new windows is much less seamless, the having it contract and automatically expand on hover is much harder (userChrome.css hacks compared to a single button), and it requires a CSS hack to remove the horizontal tab bar. I use Tab Center Reborn myself, but Edge does it better than anything I’ve used.
It doesn’t do as many extra features that I don’t use, but for tabs and tab groups I prefer the Edge ones and grudgingly use Sidebery.
I hate the Firefox sidebar for most things anyway.
