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sambul95
Iron Contributor
May 25, 2019

Broken Websites

Let's dedicate this thread to websites, which exhibit unusual behavior in Edge Insider. They either don't open or work as expected, or cause high CPU and/or GPU load when in focus.    One can check...
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May 25, 2019

sambul95 

 

I don't doubt what you are saying.  I just got the impression from other sources that Google Earth only works in Chrome.  Besides IE and Firefox not supporting Google Earth, Vivaldi also doesn't.  It is also a chromium based browser.  From ghacks.net:

 

Google makes the new Google Earth Chrome exclusive

by https://www.ghacks.net/author/martin/ on April 18, 2017 in https://www.ghacks.net/category/companies/, https://www.ghacks.net/category/google/ - Last Update: January 04, 2018
 

Google https://www.google.com/earth/ a redesigned version of Google Earth today which, unlike its predecessor, is a web application. While that sounds good on first glance, as you may run Google Earth now without having to install software or an application first, the new version is limited to Google Chrome currently on the desktop.

The desktop version of Google Earth is still https://www.google.com/earth/desktop/ on the official site though, so that non-Chrome users may download and use the application in its older form.

Google https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-earth/ that the new Google Earth works in Chrome on the desktop only. While that means support on Chromebook devices, and also better support on Linux, it also means that the new version of Google Earth is not available for users who run non-Chrome desktop browsers.

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/03/21/firefox-47-tab-based-temporary-user-agent-switching/ does not help right now to get the new Google Earth to work in other browsers.

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Rixster
Brass Contributor
Jun 02, 2019

Google Chrome is becoming more and more IE6 ("works best with....") 

 

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    sambul95
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 18, 2019

    Rixster 

     

    Here is a french website https://www.blablacar.fr/ that represents a typical problem for Edge Chromium. The browser CPU and GPU load is constantly high indefinitely long on many European websites, while it stays mostly 0% in Google Chrome regardless of PC age and CPU power.