Developers are supposed to be eager to try new stuff, however most devs on devRant prefer to hate on Edge and hate who use it.

I'm not here to defend Microsoft but I bet 95% of the people that hate on Edge haven't tried the latest version.

It's really easy on weaker hardware and on battery life. Try using an old ultrabook (2nd gen i5) as I did for some time while using Chrome or Firefox as your main browser!

I'm running the latest insider preview and I simply don't understand what the hype is. I can't use this as my main browser. What does this offer me that Chrome and Opera don't? Drawing on pages? I've already listed my complaints many times but poor extension support, bad WebGL, bugs/crashing, and still lagging support for standards (shared workers?) are pretty valid. Besides, what incentive do you have to bully people into trying Edge, a browser supported on one platform of the 3 that I use, that's closed source, that hardly does anything interesting for me?

@jchw In my experience Edge as offered me a better performance and battery life than any browser that I've tried: Firefox, Chrome or Opera. Since I'm no longer developing for web the only thing that matters to me is that it works fine on the websites that I use regularly and that it opens - better or worse - all the other ones that I eventually try to open. I've never seen a popup to use Edge on any machine that I've used, so the popup issues don't apply to me. Beware that the Edge in the Insider Previews is known to be instable, Microsoft even stated that more than once in the "known issues" for the Fast Ring builds.

It just grinds me gears that every one talks shit about it here on devRant and decides to tell you that you're "wrong" when you comment that you use it.

Well, there's definitely a difference between people talking shit and people just not caring about a thing and I think that's where we don't see eye to eye. Frankly, I find it annoying when people crap on things they aren't impacted by, but I can understand why they're not gonna try edge. I can't imagine anyone is interested in trying K-Meleon either and I bet that has phenomenal battery life.

That being said, I wish Edge supported service workers, just from a dev standpoint of wanting to be able to use them everywhere.

Well I'm just going to tell my view. I DONT GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU USE. Now that that's out of the way. Chrome is the best for website development due to how quick new standards are added and how loud it screams when there's something wrong with security (cors), but it has the down side of being a ram eater so i wouldn't recomend its usage unless you're on a desktop rig with atleast 16gb. Now i use firefox mostly cause it has good memory usage and battery usage but this is my personal choice cause i use a laptop as my daily driver and only use chrome for a final run though to catch any security warnings that firefox ignores

I have no problem with edge. My issue is that I had to code so many f'ing work-arounds for IE8 that it made me hate anything related to Internet Explorer. Yes, that's right I said internet explorer. Damn dirty IE.

So many years of my life wasted writing lovely code then having to bastardize it simply because MS didn't provide basic monthly or weekly updates.

I used it for a month or so after the update which allowed adblock to be installed. Even tho I agree its swifter than Chrome, I just couldnt get used to it

So because they name it Edge it's cutting-edge?

Does it run on Linux?

I don't have or ever had problems with Edge. IE is the one who makes me think of getting a seat in the first flight to Mars.

@metaory that was the plan.

Look at this. Every image is freaking blurred on that stupid browser! Do you not see this!?

@jAsE "bring back IE 11" is like saying "bring back Holocaust". Nobody would say or want such a thing to come back.

Well I just use it for reading PDF file not more.

And the other part of devs, have tried it and now hate it

Totally agree,most of people still stuck in 90s stereotypes for every thing coming from MS , without giving it even a single try (not five minutes)

@metaory does safari runs on linux?

@mzpro10 i guess you didn't notice how much suck chrome text rendering, specially on high resolutions, compared to edge is a far behind...and yes for me is more important how is rendered the text than some image as I'm reading for many hours per day

@dontbeevil hmm never tried to run safari, but after quick search seems like safari on Linux is totally OK,
But one time for a project I had to scrap an ASP website that only runs on IE, and I tried the package IES4LINUX on my Arch Linux, which runs wine under the hood, and didn't worked out

@metaory You have Chromium for that :p

@DLMousey Just because a previous version of a software was crap that doesn't imply that the new one is the same. At least I think like that.

@jAsE You point out that Edge has few features and then you ask for IE 11 that has the same or even less features, great logic

@mzpro10 If you used CSS or even a PNG instead of a bitmap to design the freaking UI buttons that wouldn't happen, pretty much every browser I used on computers using scaling have that issue because they stretch the images to scaled them like all the other UI elements.

@DLMousey 10 years in IT are centuries... things changes every day... get over it