I wonder how many people are actually running Microsoft Edge by choice rather that as a result if Microsoft’s aggressive attempts to force it on them.

On my corporate laptop, I only have Edge and Chrome installed, and I run Edge by choice. I like the horizontal (I meant vertical!) tabs. At home it's Firefox. I guess I mostly just don't want to use Chrome :D

My work PC runs Firefox and Edge. Firefox is my main browser locked down with privacy protections. Edge is left as the default so that corporate stuff doesn't break when I don't need protection from the outside world.

Same situation here. I do enjoy vertical tabs. I think edge has the best implementation of them.

Arc has the best Chrome-based implementation IMO. The best implementation all-round is tree style tabs in Firefox.

Tree style tabs are good. Great, even. But their UX implementation as a sidebar add-on isn't ideal IMO. Where edge gets it right is the side-tab bar can be automatically collapsed and extended on hover. I don't recall if you can do this with TST - its been a while since I've used it. But the fact that edge's implementation is native and not an add-on, makes it feel far more integrated and less clunky.

Do you mean vertical tabs?

I do, whoops :D

As a browser, it seems pretty good. I mostly use it as a backup browser, for when Firefox has issues. Most likely due to ad blocking and noscript extensions, but even disabling that stuff in the tab I've had issues with some sites that worked with Edge. I don't have Chrome installed. I've seriously considered switching to Edge entirely. I find myself sometimes opening it just to use the ChatGPT feature, which is really useful for searching. But I'm vaguely uneasy about being more integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem, even if it would make my life easier in various ways. And I think the Firefox web browser is worth supporting. I suspect that 'Microsoft's aggressive attempts' to get people to use it has created more use than it has lost. If they keep it up, we might see Chrome share shrink as more people realize they are installing Chrome from habit rather than because they prefer it. But Google control Android, and some integrations with phones are going to be hard to beat.

I'm on linux and I chose Edge after years of using Firefox. I love the fact that I can preview office docs in the browser.

I do as a substitute for Chrome. When I have to access websites that use some kind of Chrome feature not implemented in Firefox, I use Edge instead of installing Chrome.

I also recommend Edge for people that like Chrome as it uses a lot less of resources than Chrome while being about as fast, specially in old or not-pretty-powerful computers

I run Firefox and resort to Edge for a single corporate web app that has issues with anything not Chromium-based. Spares me from installing Chrome on my machine, which is handy.

Find it somewhat ironic that Chrome is the new Internet Explorer, both as a single development target for the web, and as a default Windows browser (Edge).

I am across all my devices. It's basically Chrome with some nice additional configuration options (such as vertical tabs). I do it because between Google spyware and Microsoft spyware, I'll take the latter - Microsoft doesn't have such vast ads network and I hate Google's aggressive contextual ads. Firefox is nice, but not as performant.

I run Edge across macOS, iOS and Windows. Edge has some great native UI affordances (vertical tabs, collections, etc) and is a bit removed from Google.

I do. At least on my devices it appears to run better than Chrome, the Hyper-V-protected tabs are neat, and I generally like Edge more than Chrome in usability. I even install it in my Linux VMs too (I know — blasphemy!).

I use Google Search though, since Bing still gives me worse results.

I sometime use Edge in an attempt to get HD on DRM-heavy streaming platforms that are not satisfied with what Firefox provides.

I can live without 4K but 480p at a low bitrate is a no for me when watching a show I care about.

I am, because I like some Chrome plugins but I choose to avoid actual Google products whenever I can. I'm also on a Mac, and Microsoft (from what I've seen) hasn't been overly pushy with it.

I prefer Edge over Chrome.

Reason is syncing with MS account on all platforms.

You can sync your browser settings across Windows with Edge but across Windows, Mac and Linux with Firefox.

I sync Edge with Mac, iOS and Windows.

And all Windows (OS) settings.

I cannot sync Windows settings with Firefox.

I run it, I like some of the integrations. I don't really see a reason to use chrome (or firefox, which I stopped using this year due to stability)

I run it by choice. Would rather not run Chrome, and Firefox has issues. Edge has been good and stable for me.

Edge has internet explorer compatibility mode, which unfortunately is needed with certain business applications

I love the teams and share point integration in edge.

Does anyone know of a fix for "Suggested for you" pages in FB feed? I used a very clean feed with just posts from my friends and all ads blocked but for some reason none of the lists used by uBlock Origin is able to block the new code for "Suggested for you". Any ideas?

EDIT: This is also a call for you, ex-Facebook engineers who once wanted to make the world a better place. You can help now to deobfuscate this code and make this trash disappear.

Seems like a waste of effort. Enjoy the adds so that you don't forget it is spyware.

Making the use of malicious platforms better for devs is counter productive to the obvious goal of not having our friends and family use it at all, so we don't have to either.

FB Purity is a dedicated extension for that: https://www.fbpurity.com/

They specifically say about that (on FB...)[0]:

"I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that Facebook seem to have rolled out new Sponsored Post code which is currently evading FBP's filters. The good news is I'm looking into fixing it. Please be patient while I work on a fix"

So I wonder whether someone managed to come up with a solution.

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gg2Y-F...

I know of a fix, but you will not like it.

Thanks for the help, Marvin.