Sep 26 2021 01:03 AM - edited Sep 26 2021 01:04 AM
I've been a Chrome user for more than a decade and love the way its ecosystem works between windows and android. But, I am growing tire of Google's political censoring and its tracking policy that it doesn't follow. So, I decided to give this new Edge browser a shot. I like it.
Using Chrome's open-source code is a huge plus. I can still use my favorite apps. The voice search is a lot better than Chrome. But Bing's search is still not as good. I also like the Read Mode. I am sure there is more to discover.
New Tab:
I think I should mention I am 57 yr, old tech guy. I come from a time of dial-up. I used Netscape, IE, Firefox, and more browsers. I predate Google when you had to use 5+ search engines to find what you want.
Sep 26 2021 02:36 AM
@johnl12 Hello, Glad to see you're using the new microsoft edge, and
Welcome to the Microsoft edge (insider) community!
I would like to comment some of your points:
- You can change your new tab page with extensions on the microsoft edge addons store (Microsoft Edge Addons)
- You can choose special pages to open when you start the browser (google for example, or yahoo or others) in settings > start, home, new tab > add your own pages.
- The microphone on new tab only works using bing as search engine, but maybe there are extensions to use voice search with google... (you can send feedback about your "sad" issue with three dots menu > help and feedbcak > send feedback)
- For the fourth point, you should also send feedback to the dev team
And finally, as you said, you have a lot of things to discover ! (You can enable some options with edge://flags in the search bar on the top, but they are flags, with maybe some problems)
Sep 26 2021 10:41 AM
Sep 26 2021 08:02 PM
Many moons ago Bill Gates was once asked why he doesn't document all the features of Windows. He stated he wanted the users to have the
'joy of discovery." I say BS, his programmers added a lot of tools to make what they need to do easier and just didn't remove them. I am not complaining as a sysadmin those tools are great once you find them.