What does everyone think of the new Microsoft Edge?

[+PeterUK MVC]

I don't like like it.....I want the options back and SSL view.

[Max Norris]

When it's finished and feature complete I think it's going to be a very nice option to have, get it out of the "backup browser" category for me.  Chrome's been irritating the hell out of me lately and just getting worse (and Google is going out of their way to cheese me off lately), the plethora of Chromium forks just aren't really doing anything for me, and Firefox feels like it's going nowhere (or taking literally forever to get up to speed).  At the moment it's not there yet though, but since it's not done.. *shrug* I'll wait and see, not going to judge something that's obviously a work in progress. High hopes though, I sorely want a new browser, would love to kick Chrome and Firefox to the curb, and this has lots of potential.

[Dadwen]

Not sure keep going back to Chrome or Firefox, keep trying to use Edge but after running it a bit it keeps shutting down on it's own after I try opening several links in a new tab or window (no crash error it just vanishes) seems to be doing it since the last few versions (even tried a clean install and it keeps happening).

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

Id be using it full time if it had extension support. 

[Mouettus]

Give it addons support so I can get ublock and pushbullet working and I'll switch!

 

Most sites hang for a second or 2 when they load though... :-/

[c.grz]

Well, it seems that extensions support for Edge won't come until RTM.

 

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-browser-wont-pick-extension-support-until-after-rtm

[Guest]

Don't care at all about it. I want the power to BLOCK whatever the flip I want to block. Edge is happy to give all your crap to the Interwebz.

[xendrome]

There's a new IE? Could have sworn Microsoft removed IE from Windows 10.

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

Id be using it full time if it had extension support. 

Basically, this. They clearly didn't finish work on Edge in time and had to delay some features to meet the Win10 RTM, so I'll take a wait and see approach, though I had really been looking forward to it.

[Eric Veteran]

There's a new IE? Could have sworn Microsoft removed IE from Windows 10.

 

It's just deprecated. It doesn't show up in the menus but you can still search for it and pin it.

[Ci7]

It's just deprecated. It doesn't show up in the menus but you can still search for it and pin it.

 

and you can inside edge   open with -> IE in the setting menu

[Stoffel]

It lacks a tablet mode like Modern IE.

Once it has that option i'll probably like it a lot more

[Ci7]

It lacks a tablet mode like Modern IE.

Once it has that option i'll probably like it a lot more

i doubt it would ever well.

 

Microsoft are trying to get rid of IE

[Ian W]

Dumbed down.

[spaceelf]

It's bloody fast, and I like being able to disable Flash relatively quickly (wish it was quicker, but eh!  I usually don't mind it being on.)

 

Though calling it 'the new IE' is like calling Chrome 'the new Firefox.'

[Stoffel]

i doubt it would ever well.

 

Microsoft are trying to get rid of IE

 

That doesn't mean they can't implement features from Modern IE into Edge.

If they are serious about tablets, then need to make the browser more Tablet friendly, just like they did with then Modern IE.

[+virtorio MVC]

The renderer is fine (and probably the fastest), the UI around it feels restrictive and I don't like the way it looks (which is not a specific problem with Edge so much as the general design of Windows 10).

 

Plus, because I can't use it on OS X or on my Windows 7 and 8 machine/VMs, it's worthless for me as I want to use the same browser on all the platforms I use.

[Dot Matrix]

Too basic to be of much use now.

[Ci7]

what stop me from using Edge is extenisons

 

ADBlock + lastpass (being lazy these days to renumber that kind of stuffs )

 

when that is done i would move to Edge in a heartbeat from Firefox

 

That doesn't mean they can't implement features from Modern IE into Edge.

If they are serious about tablets, then need to make the browser more Tablet friendly, just like they did with then Modern IE.

 

ah ok, that passed for my mind ;P i am kinda tired LOL.

 

they would surely gonna do that, unless they are out of their mind ...but would be done  at later date sadly

[Deus Maximus]

Other than the lack of extensions, the inability to change the search engine to Google is why I refuse to use it.

It seems intentional, too. Edge allows both Twitter and Wikipedia as search engines, but still won't allow you to add Google in any easy or meaningful way. I also noticed that under a fresh install of Windows 8.1 recently, it was nearly impossible to add Google as the default search engine for IE, either.

[Lathanielt]

I like it, give it extension support and I think they may have a winner. It is bloody fast as well

[timster]

I've got AdGuard installed, so there are no ads displayed in Project Spartan/Microsoft Edge.

 

It's just deprecated. It doesn't show up in the menus but you can still search for it and pin it.

Internet Explorer is in the Start Menu under Windows Accessories 

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

I've got AdGuard installed, so there are no ads displayed in Project Spartan/Microsoft Edge.

Internet Explorer is in the Start Menu under Windows Accessories

Did you have to add Edge? Adguard doesn't seem to be blocking anything for me. Working fine with Chrome.

[Obry]

Not the biggest Chrome fan but I can't live without it's Dev Tools and the fact that I can run it on every OS that I use seals the deal for me. I doubt we'll see Edge on anything but Windows 10 so I doubt I'll be using it much. Even Safari has Windows version. If they release it for OS X, iOS, Android, etc then we can talk again.

[Anibal P]

Still IE no matter what they call it, will still only be good for downloading a real browser