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Alexei_Drekker
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Aug 30, 2020

Microsoft Edge Legacy

The latest 20H2 update on my Windows Insider machine appears to have removed legacy edge even though the side by side mode was activated prior to the installation of Edge stable as per Microsoft's ow...
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ChromeRefugee
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Aug 30, 2020

Alexei_Drekker Yeah good question. I occasionally used Edge Classic as fallback if a site didn't work in Edgium. Not anymore! Also interested in re-enabling Edge Classic / Legacy. 

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    HotCakeX
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    Dec 06, 2020

    ChromeRefugee 

    ChromeRefugee wrote:

    Alexei_Drekker Yeah good question. I occasionally used Edge Classic as fallback if a site didn't work in Edgium. Not anymore! Also interested in re-enabling Edge Classic / Legacy. 

    Wow. this is the first time I'm hearing this. a website more compatible with EdgeHTML engine than Chromium or FireFox engines. lol in my entire life I've never come across such a website. not even Microsoft's websites do that.

    EdgeHTML engine has always been either equally or less performant and compatible than other engines such as Chromium and Firefox, never more compatible and better.

    and not talking about now, even back in 2015 when it was first introduced all the way till now.

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