Is Microsoft Edge Taking Over?

The moment they pulled this fast one with ASKING me first was the end of any possibility my using Edge.

The previous comment should have read "without"

I downloaded Edge on purpose to try it out. I hate Google Chrome because of the amount of malware (PUPs) that land on my computer everytime I log onto it. I find Edge to be just as good as Chrome without picking up all the PUPs when I go online.

I was using Firefox while avoiding Chrome, but now I am sticking with Edge. It is fast.

My Edge updated but my default browser has always been and will remain Firefox.

W10 update really really messed up a lot of printers with the last update. Its all over the net. It's broke. So I did a System Restore to an earlier date and then I postponed the auto update till July 29 and I got everything back. If you don't like edge, you can do what I did.

Whatever happened to moral boundaries?
i'm sick of mSOFT's failures, and I'm sick of all unsolicited FOISTWARE. How very dare mS manipulate private info-data from within my non-mS browser which is NOT part of Windows operating system - the only mS-ware I use - and therefore not to be interfered with WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.
I've NEVER used mS Edge - I deactivated it as best I could - but now it's back bothering me with pop-ups and such sheet. This antagonises me no end: I'll redouble my advice to others NOT to trust mS with the security of personal data, as they patently do NOT respect our privacy.

Probably won't switch to Edge any time soon. I favor Firefox over all the rest. I will use Chromium (but never Chrome) as a backup if necessary. Edge comes in at a distant third. But then, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so kudos to MS for finally coming round to Chromium.

I have little trust of Microsoft, and even less of Google, who censors free speech on YouTube. Way back in 1989 when I got my first computer I used Netscape for years, then they became Firefox, which I still use today. I love the way FF operates, have zero need for either Chrome or Edge.

I've just had my Win10 laptop updated with the new Edge. I've not used the old Edge, and see no reason to change my mind; I suspect that, like the XBox programmes installed in W10, it'll be installed in reinforced concrete; I just won't use it. I use Opera as my main browser (I'm not quite so paranoid about China, who probably don't find my browsing for model railroad stock quite a national security measure) partly because it comes with a VPN - with Vivaldi as an alternative. I keep Firefox as a backup for one particular add-on that only works on FF, Chrome and IE. It takes so long the load that it's of no use as a main browser. I don't trust MS or Google with my personal data; I detests MS's *need* to have me sign in to an MS account just to play solitaire; to insist that my experience is incomplete without XBox involvement and sharing everything I do.
I can understand the mercantile desire for companies to try to gain as much information as they can from 'customers' - but they should ask me FIRST - and not disable my experience if I don't agree.

I'm tired of the Microsoft bashing.

Sorry - I didn't finish. If you don't like how Microsoft is changing Windows, then don't use it. There are three very-strong alternatives: iOS, Linux and ChromeOS. (2 if you hate Google too.) Linux is even free, and runs on anything.

If the argument is, "I don't like them changing things," then turn off all updates and accept the consequences. Things break when they get old, get viruses, and generally don't work as well as when new. This goes for people too.

Accept change, you have no control over the outside world. Learning is change, and only the dead are not affected. Stealing a quote from Leo Notenboom: You have exactly two and only two options: "Get angry and bitter and convince yourself that the change-makers are responsible for all sorts of assorted evils in the world ... or ... Accept change. Embrace it. Learn from it. Exploit it. See how it’s made the world a much, much better place. Enjoy it, even."

I don't like the Windows 10 OS or the Edge browser that comes with it. It suffers from 'muchness' and uses convoluted jargon instead of plain old stupid, simple, basic English that most people are used to. TEN has too many things going on that very few users actually need.

Not only that, but it looks to me that Billy's Microsoft (is it still his?) very much wants to have access to everything that people do on the Internet. . ..

No, thanks, but I'll keep on using Opera browser with reliable, privacy-minded old Ducky as my search. Cheers to you all!

Edge won't flush. It's there and I have to kill it. If you open Outlook and link to a web page, it usually can't find the page. Wow,that's impressing web programming... (Sarcasm) Sorry, I don't care about those news items that are thrown in my face. It just uses computer memory. It also hijacks PDFs that are supposed to be for adobe.

"Change" is up to the individual, not the tyrant.

Okay - Question will deleting this mess up the system?

50 shades of spying and control. It is very difficult to stay under the radar. In our busy days it is very difficult to find time to maneuver between spying software and web sites traps. If you have a social and political life, and another profession it is no time left to fight them.

I m still operating on Windows 7 Pro. Because MS dropped support for this operating system, imagine my surprise when they updated my computer during the night with an installation of the Edge browser. Thank you Bob for your article of June 22, 2020, which explained what Edge is and isn't. I will probably download the browser and see how it compares to Chrome, which I do use. It is not an issue to me that MS did this as I believe that when I use their operating system I am at their mercy. Really it is no different than having Apple run my iphone.

Understand that I do not approve of the policies of the big tech companies, but technology allows me to communicate and research what drives my passion for my faith, family and country. I use these giants more than they use me. I am unchanged by them because I know where I stand. My foundation is firm unlike the winds that puff them up.

Sticking with FF and DDgo - see no reason to change - annoying that Edge inserted itself on my Win 7 computers! - they won't service Win 7 any more but still use their access to it to put stuff on my computer that I haven't asked for - annoying.....never liked pushy sales tactics in the physical world - like it even less in the cyber one that brings stuff straight into my home!

Does the new Edge use less RAM than the old Edge? Which browser consumes least RAM?

I've used Firefox along with Chrome for a long time. I really like how Firefox with alphabetize Bookmarks with a right click and in Chrome, it's much harder. However, Firefox has begun to not load web pages so I copy the URL and post in Chrome or Edge to get it opened. Therefore, that is a negative for Firefox. Am not sure how well Edge will do these tasks, but am using it more these days to check it out.

I am still of the opinion that it should be against the law (illegal) to secrete any app or program whether it is a good app, spam, or pup, which the user has not requested onto any PC, I don't know what Google think about M'Soft pinching their users but I will not use any app I didn't install myself as a matter of principle!! if the app is any good word of mouth will attract new users

I still use Firefox, despite its sub where its memory usage grows and grows until it becomes very sluggish and eventually crashes, because it lets me pin the bookmark panel on the left side of the screen. Edge removed that from Internet Explorer, but they've announced they will put it back in someday. Google refuses, despite years of outcries from users, to let you pin a bookmark panel because their insane, steadfast insistence on a bare bones GUI, despite users not wanting that and wanting a bookmark panel permanently displayed.