How Mozilla And Google Can Compete With Microsoft Edge

[Artorius]

Meh "Microsoft Edge", the name Spartan was much better.

Just imagine Spartan yelling at the other browsers "Comrades, today we browse in hell!!!!!!", shield slamming an add and then kicking a spyware.

This name was just glorious.

[Holyshnikies]

Meh "Microsoft Edge", the name Spartan was much better.

Just imagine Spartan yelling at the other browsers "Comrades, today we browse in hell!!!!!!", shield slamming an add and then kicking a spyware.

This name was just glorious.

kek, yeah. Edge doesn't seem too "edgy" of a creative name. Sounds forced. Over rated. Lame. It's not hipster enough.

[Kagthul]

Meh "Microsoft Edge", the name Spartan was much better.

Just imagine Spartan yelling at the other browsers "Comrades, today we browse in hell!!!!!!", shield slamming an add and then kicking a spyware.

This name was just glorious.

Except... entirely wrong Spartans.

Halo reference, meng. Halo.

[Stormspark]

The "new" browser is just IE being renamed. There is no "new" anything. It uses the IE rendering engine, and the IE javascript engine. How is this not IE?

Btw, IE is the old browser, not Firefox/Chrome. Firefox/Chrome are modern browsers. Both of them are over a decade ahead of IE technologically. It's amazing how people just believe everything that comes out of Microsoft's mouth, despite them lying to people over and over and over. "Edge" or "Spartan" or whatever it is, is just the new name for IE. It's not in any way new. Microsoft thinks they can get rid of IE's bad reputation by renaming it. Unfortunately, enough people are dumb enough to believe them that it will probably work.

[Xaelai]

If Firefox continues to display nearly any website that I wanna go to, I'll keep using it, because that's what I have installed, and that's what works, and that's what I'm used to.

For me to switch browsers, I'd have to have a good reason for doing so, something like...

1). The current browser I'm using no longer works
2). The new browser being offered does something the current one does not

Can we say this for Edge vs Firefox? Not from what I've seen thusfar.

[skatblast]

firefox #1!!!

[Baracuda]

The "new" browser is just IE being renamed. There is no "new" anything. It uses the IE rendering engine, and the IE javascript engine. How is this not IE?

Btw, IE is the old browser, not Firefox/Chrome. Firefox/Chrome are modern browsers. Both of them are over a decade ahead of IE technologically. It's amazing how people just believe everything that comes out of Microsoft's mouth, despite them lying to people over and over and over. "Edge" or "Spartan" or whatever it is, is just the new name for IE. It's not in any way new. Microsoft thinks they can get rid of IE's bad reputation by renaming it. Unfortunately, enough people are dumb enough to believe them that it will probably work.

You know I haven't used IE at home for many years but... your comparison reeks of fanboyism.

[Afrospinach]

Should html5 reign supreme?

On this note - I don't think so. It is not like flash is never evolving and picking a winner and saying this is it, well what happens if it turns out it does have security flaws and you have tossed all competing standards to the wayside?

[Artorius]

Except... entirely wrong Spartans.

Halo reference, meng. Halo.

The "new" browser is just IE being renamed. There is no "new" anything. It uses the IE rendering engine, and the IE javascript engine. How is this not IE?

Actually... It does not use current IE's Javascript engine. The new Internet Explorer however (yes, they're keeping it for compatibility reasons) is going to use Spartan's new javascript engine if the website is not asking for Chakra.

[Valnoressa]

Yeah I don't think it matters what name they choose to call their web browser. There is a decade worth of stigma attached to any web related things Microsoft try to do. Internet Explorer, Bing and now Edge!

I'm comfortable with Chrome so... business as usual for me.