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. 😂

  • pietervdvn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • mholiv@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It has a slightly better privacy policy compared to google chrome while fully supporting progressive web apps on Linux. Edge is also very much so more efficient in terms of system resource utilization. It also has high quality native built in translation which I need. All of this means I use Edge as my PWA browser.

    Chromium lacks native translation support. Firefox PWA support is not good. Edge was the least bad option for me. 🤷‍♀️