Wondering about the New Browser Microsoft is pushing.

[DWalt]

I treat Edge as just a standby browser. For a long time I used Firefox, but switched to Opera as primary about 3 years ago on both my computers. I am very happy with Opera, it even has a built-in free VPN along with all sorts of other goodies. I can't imagine using anything but Opera from now on. But I still keep Firefox on my desktop, just in case.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I've used Firefox since it came out. I do keep other browsers around for kicks and giggles, though. I don't like Chrome much, but the newest Edge - which is basically Chrome with extra features is surprisingly pretty good. The original version of Edge before they switched to the Chromium engine was pretty dismal.

The new Edge is almost good enough to make me switch from Firefox, so you'll probably be happy with it once you figure out where all the settings are located. It is always frustrating looking for everything in a new browser, but that includes Firefox. Nearly every time they update they move things around or change the way you access things.

 

[Golddollar]

I didn't understand a word of this thread.

 

[walkin jack]

I didn't understand a word of this thread.

I hear ya. And I'm pretty much in the same boat. But take comfort...you were able to type and post so you're doin' okay.

 

[DWalt]

I remember many years ago (mid-90s) when there was only Internet Explorer. Or at least I don't remember any other browsers back then (Apple may have had one). That was when most people at home had to use a telephone modem to connect to the internet. It seemed miraculous when I first got home wireless internet service, which I think was around 2000.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I remember many years ago (mid-90s) when there was only Internet Explorer. Or at least I don't remember any other browsers back then (Apple may have had one). That was when most people at home had to use a telephone modem to connect to the internet. It seemed miraculous when I first got home wireless internet service, which I think was around 2000.

You forgot Netscape Navigator. If my memory is correct it existed before Internet Exploder - I could be wrong, though - it was a long time ago. I used Netscape for years. It later morphed into Mozilla and then Firefox.

 

[Skeet 028]

Well I downloaded the new Edge Browser. Still have IE on the machine too. So far it is working ok..but it has a lot of new stuff...but most of the other IE stuff I didn't really use either. We shall see in the coming days etc.. And yeah guys...I don't understand most of that stuff posted. I am nigh on to computer illiterate

 

[ontheroad20]

Haven't heard of any of this stuff till this thread.

 

[muddocktor]

You forgot Netscape Navigator. If my memory is correct it existed before Internet Exploder - I could be wrong, though - it was a long time ago. I used Netscape for years. It later morphed into Mozilla and then Firefox.

Yeah, you got it Dennis. Navigator was the go-to web browser in the mid 90's and IE was junk back then. The only thing that IE did well back then was apply enough pressure on Netscape to make them offer Navigator up for free like IE. Netscape used to sell Navigator back in the day, if you weren't savvy enough to purloin a copy.

 

[Skeet 028]

I had some problems getting onto some sites Called one place and they said it was because their site did not support IE or the other way around..who knows They talked computer-eez...I don't. This edge works on the S&W site though

 

[TX-Dennis]

I had some problems getting onto some sites Called one place and they said it was because their site did not support IE or the other way around..who knows They talked computer-eez...I don't. This edge works on the S&W site though

Probably because IE is getting a bit long in the tooth. Lots of websites just aren't compatible with old browsers due to advances in coding that the older browsers just can't handle. Edge should work with pretty much everything as long as you let it update itself automatically.

 

[schutzen-jager]

not one hint of a problem with Edge that i'm aware of -

 

[Ogandydancer]

I use Firefox exclusively on this Mac with a few exceptions when I use Safari. I have Edge installed on my iPad and it works fine. I stay as far away from Chrome as possible. I also have Vivaldi on this Mac but about a year ago it started crashing about every time it updated. Haven't tried it lately so they could have fixed those problems by now. Firefox and vivaldi run circles around Safari.

 

[DWalt]

Strangely enough, when I started up this morning, I had a pop-up notice that my Edge had been updated, first time I remember having that happen. But I don't plan to use it. I sort of remember Netscape Navigator, previously mentioned, but I don't remember using it.

I got my first computer, a Tandy 1000, sometime in the mid-1980s. That was before Windows was in anything close to widespread use, I think the Tandy used DOS 3.1. I had a modem to connect with the internet, but I don't remember much about how I did it, and there wasn't much to connect with anyway. I do remember it was extremely slow. I used that Tandy well into the 1990s, I remember selling it in a garage sale for $20.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I tell my wife what I want to do on the internet when I buy a new computer.
She sits down and ticaticatica's on the key board for about half an hour.
She then tells me to "do this, this and this." usually tales a few tries before I am trained. If something untoward happens,I scream "MOM....FIX IT" and go watch TV until she fixes it. And then I ask her to make me a sammich

 

[Skeet 028]

I tell my wife what I want to do on the internet when I buy a new computer.
She sits down and ticaticatica's on the key board for about half an hour.
She then tells me to "do this, this and this." usually tales a few tries before I am trained. If something untoward happens,I scream "MOM....FIX IT" and go watch TV until she fixes it. And then I ask her to make me a sammich

Well heck Caj...no wonder momma took both halves of the gummit check y'all got. She's your computer guru and then your sammich maker.. You have to know you "OWED" her both halves!! LOL

 

[Dave_n]

Strangely enough, when I started up this morning, I had a pop-up notice that my Edge had been updated, first time I remember having that happen. But I don't plan to use it. I sort of remember Netscape Navigator, previously mentioned, but I don't remember using it.

I got my first computer, a Tandy 1000, sometime in the mid-1980s. That was before Windows was in anything close to widespread use, I think the Tandy used DOS 3.1. I had a modem to connect with the internet, but I don't remember much about how I did it, and there wasn't much to connect with anyway. I do remember it was extremely slow. I used that Tandy well into the 1990s, I remember selling it in a garage sale for $20.

Built my first Heathkit computer in the late 1970s (ah the fun of soldering small pieces of electronic equipment) and followed it with a color TV. Those were the days.... Dave_n

 

[Univibe]

Microsoft builds software like gun makers make guns.

They know it's full of bugs. They make you the best tester.

 

[rwsmith]

The first browsers Windows started including....

You forgot Netscape Navigator. If my memory is correct it existed before Internet Exploder - I could be wrong, though - it was a long time ago. I used Netscape for years. It later morphed into Mozilla and then Firefox.

...with their platform were real junk. They got less junky and some other external programs got absorbed.

 

[rwsmith]

What bothers me........

...is that Microsoft decreases their compatibiities to push their product. Some of it is justified, some is just marketing. But then many of the Microsoft products ran like slugs. I hope they have changed a little in their practices.