> It also forces Bing down your throat if you select text and open the context menu.
I have google as default search engine and it shows me google in context menu, I don't have any mentions of bing.
> It sometimes closes without any error message (to be fair, some crack-pipe UX-Designers call that a good thing.)
It cannot be configured in detail at all (about:flags; is there anything else?)
Never closed for me, probably happens not so often. Even JavaScript can't do that without my confirmation. Actually I saw the opposite behavior, some tab hanged and even if I closed all tabs, window still remained opened with zero tabs. "Fixed" by pressing "X" on window itself, so not a real problem. I didn't upgrade to Windows 2018 yet, may be they fixed that already.
> Still, bottom line: Bad browser. The internet would be a better place if MS would stop to develop any browser.
I actually think that JS engines are very close to each other and that most performance indicators are a bit lacking if it comes to applicability on real pages.
I don't agree. I'm not sure about internals, but UI of Edge is awesome while UI of Internet Explorer is horrible. I like this browser and I would be sad if MS would stop its development. Web needs more different implementations of standards and more competition.
> I have google as default search engine and it shows me google in context menu, I don't have any mentions of bing.
Must be new then. That behaviour is definitely different at least on the semi-annual channel. That is the default for corporate environments I believe. I don't use Edge in private.
And with closing, I meant the browser just crashing. That is the behaviour of many other UWP apps as well. The idea allegedly was to show error information on the next start. Never saw that in action an even MS seems to ignore that.
True, maybe more competition is better but as of yet I don't see Edge as a serious competitor to webkit, chrome or ff.
As for the UI... debatable. Of course a UI is touch-friendly if there are about 3 buttons to configure your browser. The win8 UI was also considered modern. It still wasn't good in most cases.
I have google as default search engine and it shows me google in context menu, I don't have any mentions of bing.
> It sometimes closes without any error message (to be fair, some crack-pipe UX-Designers call that a good thing.) It cannot be configured in detail at all (about:flags; is there anything else?)
Never closed for me, probably happens not so often. Even JavaScript can't do that without my confirmation. Actually I saw the opposite behavior, some tab hanged and even if I closed all tabs, window still remained opened with zero tabs. "Fixed" by pressing "X" on window itself, so not a real problem. I didn't upgrade to Windows 2018 yet, may be they fixed that already.
> Still, bottom line: Bad browser. The internet would be a better place if MS would stop to develop any browser. I actually think that JS engines are very close to each other and that most performance indicators are a bit lacking if it comes to applicability on real pages.
I don't agree. I'm not sure about internals, but UI of Edge is awesome while UI of Internet Explorer is horrible. I like this browser and I would be sad if MS would stop its development. Web needs more different implementations of standards and more competition.