Gatt Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 What's your view on the new browser? I was going to type this in it, but Edge doesn't seem to let me type into the main editor I can get the title in, but nothing else... Also, the user agent string appear to reflect "Edge" now, even if its still Spartan in Build 10074 [h=2]Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0[/h]
JRowley Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 Generally I like the design and features, not a huge fan of the name honestly. There is clearly still work to be done on it, currently it fails to redirect to our ADFS server while logging into O365 which is a bit surprising, so yeah still things to be done.
MartinT Posted May 2, 2015 Posted May 2, 2015 It works fine for me, including Sharepoint and OWA. I like the clean design and fitting of full-screen pages like YouTube inside the window.
Gatt Posted May 2, 2015 Author Posted May 2, 2015 Apparently, YouTube thinks Edge is not a modern browser..
Michael Posted May 2, 2015 Posted May 2, 2015 I guess the question is, will you be on the edge of your seats with this browser, or on the edge of a cliff when it's probably going to be 'metro'ed' like everything Microsoft these days
Arthur Posted May 2, 2015 Posted May 2, 2015 when it's probably going to be 'metro'ed' like everything Microsoft these days Not sure what you mean by "probably" since Edge already is a Windows app.
Michael Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 So if it's already an App, I presume you won't be able to run it in Desktop mode and only Metro mode? The importance of this is clear - corporate IT don't care about Apps or Metro, they just need a bog standard desktop to run their own internal or cloud applications, that's it.
ellsandell Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) So if it's already an App, I presume you won't be able to run it in Desktop mode and only Metro mode? The importance of this is clear - corporate IT don't care about Apps or Metro, they just need a bog standard desktop to run their own internal or cloud applications, that's it. Its a universal app which to the user, runs and would look like any win 32 app. Metro is now defunct as it runs within the desktop (windowed etc). Now it is actually a universal app which is updated through the store and shares its codebase edge on windows phone for example. Edited May 5, 2015 by ellsandell
Michael Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 I agree that an integrated desktop/metro is a better solution and not separate - one of most people's 'hates' with Windows 8 and 8.1. I never quite understood why Microsoft thought this would be winning formula.
Arthur Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) Like Google and Mozilla, Microsoft now has a public changelog for their Edge browser. Microsoft Edge Changelog ... and a blog. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/ Edited May 5, 2015 by Arthur 1
MartinT Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Useful, thanks. I am one of those users who really likes the cleanness of the W8.1 Metro Internet Explorer and use it a lot. I think Edge will be even better as it will run windowed or full screen and gives much (but not all) of that lovely clean screen experience.
LeMarchand Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Been trying to use Edge, but so far it seems to be as slow (on my old machine) as IE.
LeMarchand Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Both Edge and IE11 measure faster than Chrome! Gave up on Chrome and went back to Firefox. May not be the fastest, but it has a load of addons that I like and use. I did make an effort to use IE11, but found it sluggish. Noticed the MS Update catalogue doesn't work with Edge!
Zoom7000 Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Firefox is still my browser of choice, but I like the fact that it will (potentially!) support Chrome Extensions and Firefox Addons
Arthur Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 A break from the past, part 2: Saying goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, attachEvent… In this post, we are sharing a list of legacy IE technologies and features that are not part of Microsoft Edge. Not supporting these legacy technologies in Microsoft Edge has a number of benefits: better interoperability with other modern browsers, improved performance, security & reliability, and reduced code complexity, just to name a few. And just like all good developers, ours love to delete code – over 220,000 lines of code in MSHTML have been removed from Microsoft EdgeHTML! We’re also sharing more about how we plan to introduce new web platform features to Microsoft Edge using concepts like feature flags and API trials, with the goal of preserving the ability to experiment with new capabilities which eventually lead to stable, interoperable implementations across browsers.
liveman2 Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Does edge support group policy (as it's an App from the store) ?
Arthur Posted May 8, 2015 Posted May 8, 2015 Does Edge support group policy (as it's an App from the store)? It does indeed (in addition to MDM). http://vgy.me/YLfKff.png 1
MartinT Posted June 30, 2015 Posted June 30, 2015 Edge is very good in desktop 10130 and seems to have become properly good in Mobile 10136, even sporting the new logo and name. Performance is improving with every iteration, too. It doesn't measure that fast on a Lumia 930, but it's early days and phone browsers never seem that quick.
Arthur Posted March 18, 2016 Posted March 18, 2016 Bringing Extensions to Microsoft Edge I am excited to share that we have shipped the first preview release of Microsoft Edge with extensions support to Windows Insiders. Since the beginning of the Microsoft Edge project, our roadmap has always included extensions in order to support a vibrant community of developer innovation on top of the browser, enabling new and interesting scenarios for our customers. As we have also shared, one of our highest priorities is to ensure that Microsoft Edge is the safest, most reliable and fastest browser we could build, and our experience over the past 20 years has taught us that poorly written or even malicious add-ons were a huge source of security, reliability and performance issues for browsers. With this in mind, we have built Microsoft Edge so customers can add extensions to the browser with the confidence that they will operate as expected. To ensure the highest quality experience for customers, and as we have done with Windows 10 since the beginning, we will introduce extensions first to our Windows Insiders and then roll them out more broadly to all Windows 10 users. Initially our Insiders will download and then sideload extensions for testing purposes, but ultimately we will make extensions available to all of our customers via the Windows Store to ensure the quality of the end-to-end experience. The Windows Insider build will include three preview extensions: Microsoft Translator, an extension that automatically translates pages in over 50 different languages, a Mouse Gestures extension, and an early preview version of the popular Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES). Later this year customers will find popular extensions from partners like AdBlock, Adblock Plus, Amazon, LastPass, Evernote and more.
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