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. 😂

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
    593·
    10 months ago

    Probably a godsend if you’re a web dev. No more rebooting or running a second PC/VM for compatibility checking.

      • railsdev@programming.dev
        14·
        10 months ago

        Just two years ago I had someone complaining that my website didn’t work in Internet Explorer. By that point the library I was using didn’t support it anymore but the old bat (really bitchy lady) refused to switch.

        So I ended up blocking the entire user-agent with a “this browser is not supported” page that explained you need to download Edge because IE is end of life. Really hated to do that (not a fan of UA sniffing) but that was the only thing I could really do.

          • railsdev@programming.dev
            3·
            10 months ago

            Agreed, but as a big Safari fan I’m not keen on forcing my choice onto users. You’re right, Firefox is a huge win privacy-wise but since it was a business application and they’re clearly on Windows I decided to “respect” the OS and software she was currently running by linking to Microsoft’s support article on the matter.

            Also, this was before Edge got super creepy. I think it was around the time it first came out.

        • mvirts@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          At least you can take comfort that you probably contributed to saving her from some ie malware in the future

    • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      The only possible use case I can think of, but I’d still want to restrict the thing to its own VM out of paranoia.