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martinnn
Sep 29, 2020Iron Contributor
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...
HotCakeX
Sep 29, 2020MVP
I can say all of that about Edge as well. so let me remind you of that as well.
Firefox is slower than Edge and Edge because of using Chromium is more compatible.
if Firefox was that good, they would keep their userbase instead of losing them to Chrome.
Edge's features were the reason I don't use Firefox as my main browser anymore.
I suggest you to see the whole picture, try insider Edge channels, explore the flags and upcoming features. many of them are missing in Firefox.
Firefox is slower than Edge and Edge because of using Chromium is more compatible.
if Firefox was that good, they would keep their userbase instead of losing them to Chrome.
Edge's features were the reason I don't use Firefox as my main browser anymore.
I suggest you to see the whole picture, try insider Edge channels, explore the flags and upcoming features. many of them are missing in Firefox.
martinnn
Sep 29, 2020Iron Contributor
Plus, it doesn't matter whether Firefox is "slower" or not. Nobody has ever noticed a real difference in browsing speed based solely on the browser engine. The only thing that impacts how quickly a page loads is your internet speed and tracker blocking (which both browsers offer).
I would argue that Firefox has overall faster browsing because higher customization lets you pin commonly used commands to the toolbar to access them more quickly.
I would argue that Firefox has overall faster browsing because higher customization lets you pin commonly used commands to the toolbar to access them more quickly.
- HotCakeXSep 29, 2020MVPWe could if try Firefox nightly and Edge canary. lets see how warp performs against V8 engine
- martinnnSep 29, 2020Iron ContributorI've never noticed a difference between the browsers. I have an old video here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/fhsdh4/everyone_says_chromium_edge_is_better_because_its/
I also had (and still have) pretty much equal tracker blocking between browsers.
Plus, if we're counting future features of Edge, shouldn't we be counting future speed increases for Firefox? - HotCakeXSep 29, 2020MVPFirefox's javascript engine is the main source of slowness. they are working on warp to improve it but that's for the future.
so yeah of course the slowness is noticeable, with the same Internet speed.