Firefox is not owned by a big corporation which can do so much to push it and market it. Comparing the push and marketing Microsoft can do with Mozilla's is just unfair.
Now, why Edge can't get market share from Chrome even if they can do the same kind of push and marketing Google can do?
It's always about the default experience. This is what the masses care about.
It feels bloated by default. The default home/NTP feels cluttered with so much stuff from MSN. The sidebar has too many buttons with Microsoft services. The default search engine is Bing.
Yes, you can change all that stuff but let's be real.
The masses are not interested on what they can accomplish by making changes in settings. The masses care about the default experience and have no crave to use a specific browser no matter what.
So they open Edge, they don't like what they see and close it and go back to Chrome.
Just compare Edge defaults with Chrome defaults.
Chrome's default home/NTP has a clean interface with google search and a simple white background.
No sidebars and no buttons everywhere with services they don't even use, Google is smart enough to "hide" all google services in a menu button in NTP and not having them everywhere.
The default search engine is the engine they use.
No wonder the masses prefer Chrome over Edge.
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