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MissyQ Also I'll paste this message with every time you renew this page since you guys don't care.
Now Edge has released officially and I'm still waiting for:
- Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window (Like in Firefox, IE and many others)
- Middle Mouse Clicks to open new tabs when clicked on the tabs bar (Like in Firefox)
- Move the opened tabs to the bookmarks toolbar by just dragging them with the mouse (Like in Firefox)
- Built-in Ad-Blocker (Like in Opera)
- Built-in VPN (Like in Opera)
- Importing from Firefox (Which doesn't exists on 90% of the machines I've tried) which is a MAJOR bug!! It's basically the first step I'm going to do "when" I move to Edge !!
So I'm not moving to Edge until these are added/fixed.. and trust me I want to move to Edge because I use almost all Microsoft products including Windows Defender,OneDrive, Office 356 and more! And everything is synced into my Microsoft account! And Edge is great so far and I want it to be synced too! But not perfect since these things and more are missing!
They should be very very simple to add since they exists in Firefox like a decade and half ago... (Except for Ad-Blocker & VPN which exists in the useless Opera for years!)
But looks like Edge still have years to be "near" perfect since you guys don't care much, and until then I see 0 reasons to use it and 0 reasons to change Firefox.
I agree with some of your points, but you need to remember that everybody here has a different environment and different use case. There is no one-size-fits-all. That's why browsers like Vivaldi exist, to cater to a very specific group.
I personally manage browser security (amongst many other things) at a company with 8000 workstations and 1500 servers. Keeping everything working and everybody happy is a big job, especially when I need to support every major browser.
There are many features that exist in Chrome/Firefox/Opera etc. that should also exist in Edge, just to satisfy the user's expectations. We don't want people to try Edge and then move back to another browser because of a stupid minor issue.
On your comments:
- Confirmation on closing multiple tabs is definitely needed.
- Middle mouse clicks - I don't think many people even know this exists, let alone have a mouse with a middle button
- Dragging to the bookmarks bar - only advanced firefox users will know about this one
- Ad-blocker - Edge's built in blocker is WAY BETTER than the other browsers, and the privacy dashboard is great. There are 100 plugins available if you want something more granular.
- VPN - The last thing I want is my users opening VPN sessions to third party servers, in order to circumvent our internal security. Opera is the only browser to support this, with 2% market share. There are many other missing features with a higher priority, and I definitely want a policy to disable it, should it ever be introduced.
- Firefox importing - I agree that it doesn't always find Firefox profiles to import, but this is something that is difficult to reproduce. If it finds the profile, importing is perfect.
No browser is perfect, but Edge has a strong community with a lot of good ideas. I'm personally pushing the Edge Dev Team for a ton of missing management policies, which are no use to home users. Its for them to decide where their priorities are, and which features should be added first.
It's good to be specific when things like Firefox import doesn't work.
I asked him multiple times but he didn't give me any specific version.
if Firefox import doesn't work for you, could you mention which version of Edge and Firefox you tried on?
right now at this moment, on latest version of both browsers, try it and see if it works. I did, multiple times on different machines and it worked every time.
so you do the same and report back
