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martinnn
Iron Contributor
Sep 29, 2020

Sidebar for Favorites is a step in the right direction!

I'm glad Edge Team finally made a sidebar for Favorites! Please make this available for History and Downloads and Edge will FINALLY be on the direction to become a good browser! Sidebars are great fo...
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    martinnn
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 29, 2020
    Yes, but it's also worse in many aspects 😉
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      HotCakeX
      MVP
      Sep 29, 2020

      Such as?

       

      I'm asking because Firefox has been my default browser for a long time before switching to Edge, now it's my 2nd one. 

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        martinnn
        Iron Contributor
        Sep 29, 2020

        HotCakeX 

        I'm mainly going to talk about Firefox for Windows and iOS because I'm more familiar with them.

         

        And I know that Edge will supposedly get some of these features at some point, but I'm talking about what's better now.

         

        Firefox desktop:

        • unintrusive sidebars instead of fullscreen menus
          • The sidebar can also be accessed by extensions
        • much much better customization
          • This not only allows for personalization through themes, but also faster web browsing by pinning commonly used commands to the toolbar!
        • Send webpages to iOS
        • history sync
        • tab sync
        • screenshot tool (including screenshotting only a specific region of the page or the entire page)
        • page selector in PDF viewer
        • outline in PDF viewer
        • touchscreen support (it's like Microsoft forgets that they make touchscreen devices)
        • Ctrl+tab switcher that takes you to your last used tab (if you want it--I'm personally not a fan, but the more options the better!)
        • Firefox Monitor
        • container tabs
        • tab scrolling to be able to manage more than 10 tabs in one window
        • One common "Library" for history/downloads/bookmarks/synced tabs (the way Classic Edge had)

         

        Firefox for iOS has:

        • Easily search other websites
        • Type in part of a URL and it autofills the rest, from which you can quickly add on to it—e.g. I can type “r” and Firefox will complete the url for “reddit.com” and then I can tap the end to add “/r/microsoftedge”