• Bonehead@kbin.social
        121·
        11 months ago

        I feel it’s more like changing from Coke Classic to New Coke. It’s kinda familiar, but leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      92·
      11 months ago

      I find edge uses less resources of my computer, I can have it open while on youtube while I game but I can’t do that with chrome.

      • Rincewindnz@lemmy.world
        31·
        11 months ago

        On my surface go 2 I get a better experience in terms of battery life etc than with edge than the others (I’ve experimented with chrome and Firefox). So I just use edge on everything for the sync stuff. Sure has a ton of “helpful” stuff in it I have to hide it turn off though.

    • Nariom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      262·
      11 months ago

      ye when’s the day ppl start making fun of chrome too for all the crap they’re pulling

      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
        175·
        11 months ago

        That day is now. You people literally never shut the fuck up about Chrome and you’re acting like nobody’s talking about it lol

        • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          The only reason I have Chrome installed is because corp IT installed it for me and won’t let me uninstall it. Meanwhile, I can uninstall Firefox with no issues.

          Also, if I go too long without opening Chrome, I get a scary email telling me Chrome is out of date and I need to update it.

      • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz
        10·
        11 months ago

        Like, ages ago? Google has been called out on their shady shit tons of times, it just doesn’t have much of an effect because Chrome isn’t as objectively crap as IE was. It works and it’s familiar, for most people that’s all that really matters. They have “NotHiNg to HidE” after all.

        • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          If you were reading the comment I’m replying to and thinking to yourself “well, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”, let me ask you something.

          When you go to the bathroom, do you close the door?

          Do you think we should have security cameras in every public bathroom stall watching every man, woman, and child who does their business just to make sure nobody’s doing drugs in there? (Criminalization of addiction is an entirely separate issue, but you get the point.)

          No? You’re worried about perverts watching the security tape?

          Now you understand why we want online privacy.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
    341·
    11 months ago

    My new job keeps telling me in order to correctly use their website, I need to use edge or chrome.

    So far I haven’t had any issues except them constantly reminding me in emails.

    This makes me wonder what edge and chrome are giving them behind the scenes that Firefox doesn’t.

    No part of my job has been impacted, but they’re so insistent.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
      25·
      11 months ago

      I’m not in IT, but my assumption has always been that someone on the IT side is desperate to keep things simple and is worried about double-checking everything in more than one browser. Or maybe they just don’t want help desk calls from tech-illiterate employees who somehow managed to log in from Netscape.

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
        7·
        11 months ago

        netscape

        There’s a name I haven’t heard since, ohhh… Before my nephew was born.

        I usually assume that’s the case whenever a company says “this browser on a desktop is preferred” but they send me daily personalized emails about it and trying to reinforce “it’s very important that you do it this way” that makes me feel like it’s something else

        If I’m making extra work because forms don’t work right or something, they’re not telling me that. I still wouldn’t download the browsers, but I’d be more empathetic about it (for the guy who has to fix the problems)

  • withnail@infosec.pub
    10·
    11 months ago

    I’ve never used chrome, but I’d go back to a microsoft browser before I used it. I’ve avoided everything google for over a decade.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I don’t mean for this to sting

      I forgive you everything, you monster

      I can guess the reasons why

      You are never coming by for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…

  • Steve@startrek.website
    31·
    11 months ago

    Pro-tip from a novice: download the chrome installer on another machine and put it in a USB drive, that way you can pretend that edge never existed.