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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...
Yes, but it's also worse in many aspects đ
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.
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 itâe.g. I can type ârâ and Firefox will complete the url for âreddit.comâ and then I can tap the end to add â/r/microsoftedgeâ
- Edge has customization using Chrome themes. also toolbar is very customizable. ability to pin/unpin Edge feature buttons and also using drag/drop to customize extension icons or pin them to the menu.
Firefox monitor? Edge has it too for passwords, currently in Dev/Can channels.
Edge has ability to switch between each tab using task view which is built into Windows 10.
Windows 10 20H2 update which is in RP and Beta rings right now. coming in Otcober 2020.
History and tab sync are coming soon.
that also brings the ability to access tabs from other devices such as Android and IOS.
Edge also has ability to share pages via QR code.
PDF feature? Edge has 200% more features than Firefox and Chrome, there is no arguing about that.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/roadmap-for-pdf-reader-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/1467667
container tabs. ehh..I don't know about that, it's not useful for me, I prefer the robust tracking prevention inside Edge. Or, I can just create as many offline profiles as I want in Edge, name them whatever and open each of my social network sites in them.
common library? I don't see any correlation between history, downloads and favorites, they are separate types of data, Firefox puts them all together, fine that's their style, it doesn't make it good and an example for other browsers to follow.
Easily search for other websites? what?
the URL auto completion is also on Edge (Android that I use) and desktop/Mac.- And might I remind you that the question was simply about what advantages Firefox has over Edge. Firefox has many things that Edge doesn't have yet and a few things Edge is probably never going to get (like the iOS features, better customization, touchscreen support, and unintrusive sidebars). All I was saying was that Firefox does these things better--and I was saying no more than that.
- unintrusive sidebars instead of fullscreen menus