Omelette, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux I will never not be mad that they moved Edge to Chromium.

I understand it was probably very costly to have their own rendering team and all having their own engine and all

But Edge before turning into basically a skin of Chrome was actually good.

Like, I hated IE for years and years (and been using Firefox since 2004) so I can confidently say

"If at the least the stuff you pushed wasn't some fucking degooglified shite, maybe I'd be more forgiving"

DrewNaylor, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux BRB, phase-transitioning myself to the EEA.

DaCool, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux Will never not post about https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect/

cameronbosch, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux Doesn't matter to me. I'm not using Microshaft Winblows 11 or later any way. Never have (for longer than an hour a week), never will (apart from work).

richdevine, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux probably the minority but I like edge. This behaviour is absurd though. If they tried to make people see it's actually a good browser rather than force people into using it, idk, feel that would be a better course of action

Offbeatmammal, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux please tell me someone has found the registry switch to "fix" this outside the EEC as well

trecccst, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux everyone outside the eea gotta figure out a way to make windows think they're in it

GlowingLantern, 8 months ago

@trecccst @gamingonlinux Always-on VPN on your router may work. You may also have to change the region of your MS account.

foxxtrot, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux And the focus on the EEA is just another way the British are being screwed over by Brexit.

wendymetcalfe, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux Yep. Just got a new laptop with Windows 11, and it was trying pretty hard to make their browser their default. Nope.

gpowerf, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux the fact you need Edge to use Bing chat is crazy! I have Edge installed in my Linux boxes just to use Bing chat!

And that’s all I do with it.

peteriskrisjanis, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux they see how Google controls the field and want same piece of action with their Bing business, which...checks notes...stills brings them billions of loss.
Almost like when flow of Windows and Office licenses dries out, Microsoft is for hard crash.

FantasmitaAsex, 8 months ago

@gamingonlinux even on other operating systems, they try to force users to uses Edge. I have it installed on Debian (I need sometimes to see how a web works/looks on other browsers), and somehow Edge set itself as my default PDF viewer without asking me!