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Are you using Edge? Or have you gone back to the previous browser?

I'm giving it a go but a bit of a deal breaker for me is the favourites bar forcing me to see text instead of just icons.

Apart from that, it's not bad but it's only a matter of time before I go back to Chrome with the odd, but highly useful extensions I had installed.

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Using Edge right now for everything.  However, I am finding more and more the need for add-ons, specially those that allow me to hide the adds on websites (sorry neo).

Not having these add-ons is causing me to hate not Edge but just the entire internet/websites. I will stick with Edge for a while longer, since I love how well is performing and being useful, etc, but I might go back to firefox.

Previous browser.  As others have mentioned...it is fine but really needs some extension support.  Also missing is the right click on a word and "Search Google for .... "  and  "Go to www.whatever.com" ...drag/drop support?

So I'm sticking with Chrome for a while.

 

I've been giving it an honest try and it's Okay (if I had to describe it using one word). It works well for the most part but like others have mentioned it does have a tendency to freeze up on certain websites. Also lack of extensions is killing me. I don't care much about the ad blockers but really missing my LastPass and few other dev tools.

That being said I don't see myself keeping it as my primary browser for long unless they release updates soon. I'm 99% sure I'll be going back to Chrome. I doubt we'll ever see Edge on iOS or Android and to me it is important being able to use the same browser across my devices and have my stuff synced. Maybe Microsoft will go batshit crazy and release it for Linux and OS X too but I doubt that will ever happen.

I'll use it for some things. I, like most people seem to be here, am too in love with my extensions on Firefox. But Edge has its place--the markup feature is useful and it is a clean, snappy experience in touch/tablet mode. So, as the internet would say, ¿por qué no los dos? :D

I noticed that Edge has feature: open with Internet explorer....., so you can compare them. Edge is more faster than old IE, because of flash player. The flash player in IE has big problem is eating memory too much.

Sticking with the tag-team of Waterfox and IE, because of ONE common extension between them - Internet Download Manager.  Normally, Facebook WOULD be a strong candidate for Edge; however, far too many games require Flash and sub-extensions to Flash (and games that require Flash AND a sub-extension perform better with Waterfox - not IE, for the most part).

I just am too deeply embedded in Chrome and it's syncing capabilities to give anything else serious consideration.
I have surprised myself but just how often I will look something up on my desktop and then have the need to open up that same tab on my phone or tablet.

I would however use Edge and its markup capabilities at work when dealing with a vendors as I am responsible for a lot of online apps and portals we use so instead of taking screenshots and marking them up in SnagIt or Photoshop to be able to draw right on a web page and send that off to someone is a great little feature, however I cannot see my company moving over to 10 for quite some time. We have over 350,000 employees worldwide. Hell, we are still on IE 8.

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