Microsoft's Edge Browser for Mac Leaks, Available Now From Microsoft's Official Download Servers 80
Microsoft teased its Edge browser for macOS yesterday, but now, download links have appeared online a little early. From a report: Twitter user WalkingCat discovered official Microsoft download links to both the daily Chromium-powered Canary builds of Edge for Mac [warning: direct download link] and the weekly Dev builds [warning: direct download link]. Microsoft has been working to support Mac keyboard shortcuts, and it has been experimenting with button placement so its browser looks and feels like a Mac app. Microsoft is also adding in Touch Bar support, with options for media control sliders and the ability to switch tabs from the Touch Bar. Rounded corners for tabs are also available in the macOS Edge version, and Microsoft is planning to bring this same UI to Windows.
Huh? (Score:2)
MS, must you?
Re: This Is The New Last Item On The List (Score:2, Insightful)
Actually, that trend started with the repubtards when Obama was in office.
I was told he was going to make himself president for life, declare martial law, and lock away all the white people in fema trailers.
The above statements are all things my repubtard friends said when Obama was elected and in office.
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Didn't you already post this?
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lus Mozilla is, in my opinion, made up of way too many crazy wannabe-communists.
If you're worried about the Woke Left, then no company in the tech industry is really free from it. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon are all right there, but Microsoft ain't much better. While Bill Gates was always a Liberal, today, he looks like a Joe Biden in comparison to Satya's AOC. Microsoft has now embedded NewsGuard in Edge, which declares content from mainstream right-wing news sources as fake news, while proclaiming as real MSM spin on the Mueller report about whether the Mueller inquiry fo
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>"Microsoft teased its Edge browser for macOS yesterday, but now, download links have appeared online a little early."
[Deja-Vu] Run far away. Remember history... "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." Microsoft has been doing a lot better lately, but I wouldn't throw support behind Edge. The last thing on earth we need [again] is a browser (or browser-engine) monoculture.... and ESPECIALLY not in the hands of Google/Microsoft!
If you are on MacOS, use Safari, at least it is controlled by Apple and different enough to matter. Or, if you value privacy, openness, cross-platform compatibility, performance, security, and open standards, then install Firefox in MacOS.
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If Edge's success on the operating system it was actually designed to run on, and which Microsoft used every UI preselection trick it could manage to get people using it still ended up with it being nothing more than the official Chrome download tool, I'm not exactly worried. I'm afraid Microsoft's days of dominance in web browsers is a distant memory. People like myself might use the Chromium-based Edge if it runs IE sites reasonably well, but that's a pretty narrow niche these days, so I can't figure out
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Edge doesn't even work properly when I use it to access the internal SharePoint site at work.
In case you missed it, SharePoint is a Microsoft product too. It's almost funny.
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>Edge doesn't even work properly when I use it to access the internal SharePoint site at work.
This. But neither does Chrome.
Both will browse sharepoint, but when you go to edit a doc in the browser or in the application (word, excel etc) it demands a 'supported browser' which is Internet Explorer, not edge.
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Thanks. I knew the MS shill posting would come sooner or later.
Microsoft now another Google, no longer Microsoft (Score:1)
If one is against companies spying, and I am, then Microsoft is just another wannabe Google, and has been that way since Windows 10 came out. That was when they changed from a tech company to a social media company, and are still in the process of that transformation. That will be complete the day a subscription based Windows OS replaces Windows, and when Microsoft's main revenue will be selling our data. Unlike in the 90s, or even the last decade, when Microsoft made its money by selling OSs, Office and
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You know, people like you on Slashdot have been waving the "watch out for Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" banner ever since I joined, which must have been around 2001.
18 years later, the rest of the world is waiting for the shoe to drop like you so fervently promised it would, and you are *still* waving the hate banner around.
Microsoft has changed, massively, and yet you haven't. Seems the problem switched sides...
Re:Run (still) (Score:4, Informative)
>"Microsoft has changed, massively, and yet you haven't."
Fair enough. I don't know your age or how long you have been engaged in watching such things.... but Microsoft caused a lot of wounds in my long InfoSys career that really might take even longer to heal with their relatively recent "more decent" behavior. But more importantly, it isn't just about Microsoft. The same strategy has been adopted by Oracle and many other companies. So when I fly the "embrace, extend, extinguish" banner, it is a valid caution.... a caution about any company or entity that attains too much power and influence and then uses it to crush competition by way of their position.
>"Seems the problem switched sides..."
Hmm... Microsoft is still a huge and powerful threat to other organizations, regardless. But it is very true that Google seems to be sliding into that vacuum MS is creating. It is particularly alarming to have the two "team up" on something... especially something so important as the web browser (arguably the new OS on top of an OS). Perhaps I would have felt much differently if Microsoft had decided to base their browser on Firefox.
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They abandoned MSIE on Macs years ago, why would be believe they won't abandon this in a couple of years too?
Re:Run (still) (Score:4, Insightful)
...since I joined, which must have been around 2001...
So you're too young to have really seen how Microsoft used that tactic. It's not your fault you're young, but it absolutely did happen.
The good news is that Microsoft is not really powerful enough to pull that stuff anymore.
The bad news is that Google might be. (Just like IBM used to be, but you're too young to remember that).
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Well, at long as it allows me to run my favorite ActiveX applications.
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(I have zero inside information on this.)
I would be highly skeptical of Win32 binary ActiveX controls working on non-windows platforms without a great deal of technical tomfoolery.
The headline is confusing for me (Score:4, Interesting)
I mean we all know
"Microsoft's Edge Browser for Mac Leaks"
I'd guess memory leaks? But maybe privacy, location and personal data too?
I'm sure there are dozens of people interested (for security analysis and amusement) in the second headline:
"Microsoft Edge Browser for Mac Available Now From Microsoft's Official Download Servers"
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I mean we all know "Microsoft's Edge Browser for Mac Leaks"
I'd guess memory leaks?
If the Edge Browser leaks memory it is in good company. Where I work we run a bunch of tablets whose only job is to display webpages with user notifications in a full screen browser window. We've tried every major browser on the market including Firefox and Chrome and they all leak like sieves. They usually manage to completely freeze up the tablets after an uptime of about 10-30 days depending on the browser. The only permanent cure so far has been to write a bunch of scripts that reboot the tablets at reg
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Are the browsers leaking memory or is your javascript quietly packratting a bunch of memory as it builds up closures wrapping closures wrapping closures? https://auth0.com/blog/four-ty... [auth0.com]
It's not a particularly sophisticated page, no JavaScript, no CSS, no Web Sockets or other bells-n-whistles. It's pretty much pure HTML generated from SQL queries server side. It is reloaded periodically using some HTML tag. It's positively amazing that: Browser memory leaks + Windows = Frozen tablet, on such a simple page.
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The Pi's / Screenly would load an image from a network drive and display it via HDMI output to a TV. The image files were overwritten as the data refreshed at interval. Data dashboards at every work station! It gets me hard just thinking about it.
Re:Yeah, because everyone wants Edge! (Score:4, Funny)
Queue the Microsoft shill with a post like this:
"I used to use Chrome/Firefox/Safari every day, and in fact jacked off to the Alphabet logo, but I started using Edge because someone in the accounting department, who I failed to get a date with, was using it to open Facebook Messenger when she threatened to report me to HR, and well, since then I'm a convert. It's actually a pretty good browser and even opens web pages, mostly. And Google is evil and spies on me while I'm spying on that accounting clerk with the web cam I put in the women's washroom."
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You think this blip of traffic on the internet is worth paying shills to post at? Reddit probably has magnitudes more page views than slashdot.
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You're more likely just a troll.
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And just how many systems is the Linux kernel on? How is Microsoft's efforts to crack the mobile market? As to Edge, well, Microsoft has basically abandoned Edge, and just gone for a branded version of Chromium, so it looks like even Microsoft has resorted to using open source, because it's browser share has collapsed over the last decade. Might have something to do with the fact that IE was a pile of garbage, and Edge felt like a browser developed by an 11 year old.
And yes, you're a shill.
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Windows 10 is a fragile beast. We flipped a bunch of Win10 workstations to a new domain, and about a quarter of them started having malfunctioning Start and search functionality. It turned out that Win10's UI search functionality uses some indexes in user profiles, and because of the domain switch, there was an old administrator profile that the search functionality couldn't access, it just made not just the start menu and search bar, but the whole fucking UI become flaky.
Windows 7 was pretty rock solid in
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And you seem to only be in this topic to identify and denounce Microsoft enthusiasts.
Isn't there a better way to use your time?
(I am not a Microsoft enthusiast)
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No, couldn't possibly be a publicity stunt to drum up hype. No sir-e bob....
Now I can finally upgrade that IE5 machine (Score:2)
And upgrade my machine from Mac OS X 10.6. Nevermind, this is just a Microsoft-branded Chrome.
Enjoy (Score:1)
What are we? (Score:2)
I was forced to use Edge (Score:3, Informative)
A while ago I was forced to use Edge on Windows 10.
Probably my worst MS experience ever.
However I can assure you: it is perfect capable of downloading Chrome, or if you prefer: Firefox.
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Are you alright? Do you need a therapy dog or blanket to recover from your traumatic experience?
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Thank you for asking. I'm all right. ...
My evenings consisted out of a strange obsession with beer, though.
Unfortunately I could not bill my customer for that
"Sweet, I can finally get Edge on my Mac!" (Score:2)
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Likewise:
"There's not enough telemetry on my mac sending things to all and sundry that they shouldn't know about me"
Why? (Score:3)
DO NOT WANT!
Leaks (Score:4, Interesting)
The new reason for leaking anything is simple: Beta Testers
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Who Wants a Leaky Browser? (Score:2)
Just sayin'...
Good. Now Linux. (Score:2)
I can unironically say that, from a feature standpoint, the original Edge has been my preferred browser for the last couple years, compatibility issues aside. Nice clean layout, built-in and accessible reading mode and translation, the ability to annotate pages and share them, the ability to save tab sets.
Some of those features are missing in the new version of Edge, but assuming they're in the pipeline I would jump on the chance to standardize my browsing experience between work and home.
So what? (Score:2)
Who cares if it leaks? Who in their right mind would willingly use Edge?
The one and only use case I could think of would be if a Mac user HAD to access one of those half-baked IE6 era corporate intranets that hadn't yet been updated so they needed IE to use it.