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[–] boeman@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This feels weird to say.... I really think Microsoft should've stuck with trident / edgehtml.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why? Because you liked the greater browser diversity or because you think it made a better browser?

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Diversity. MS had made great strides with EdgeHTML, but it was still pretty bad

But at least opening the browser didn't take all my ram.

[–] hai@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And also at the very least you had another option. Which, in my opinion, wasn't that bad, at least it could've been if they just gave up on Bing and MSN.

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way, they can't give up on bing. They do that and all we have is Google for searches. We need the competition. For MSN, it's all about content now, I kinda like that branding... It makes it easier to see that I don't want to see it.

[–] hai@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Microsoft could host their on SearXNG instance. /s

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 24 points 1 year ago

It was actually one of the most W3C compliant browsers there is, more so than chromium based ones. Unfortunately google’s near monopoly has made websites focus on working in chrome, not on standards.

[–] Zeragamba@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

As a web developer, EdgeHTML was the source of so many bugs, including a few that were regressions, and it didn't seem like Microsoft dedicated enough resources to the Edge project.