<story><title>Microsoft&apos;s Three Browsers</title><url>https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Edge, as-is, seems to offer me no reason to prefer it over Chrome, beyond privacy concerns with Google - and I’m unfortunately just not knowledgeable enough to know if MS is any better.&lt;p&gt;I personally use Safari. Because I’m on MacOS, I find Safari to certainly be the most immediately responsive, UI&amp;#x2F;UX-wise, and that’s pretty much what matters to be, since it’s all WebKit under the hood.&lt;p&gt;I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sahaskatta</author><text>I switched from Chrome to Edge because:&lt;p&gt;* No Google tracking.&lt;p&gt;* Blocks 3rd party trackers.&lt;p&gt;* Zoom&amp;#x2F;Scroll is smoother.&lt;p&gt;* Better optimized for touch screens.&lt;p&gt;* Longer battery life.&lt;p&gt;* Seems to use less RAM.&lt;p&gt;* All my Chrome extensions are compatible.&lt;p&gt;* I can watch Netflix in 4K. Can&amp;#x27;t do that on Chrome or on a Mac.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft&apos;s Three Browsers</title><url>https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Edge, as-is, seems to offer me no reason to prefer it over Chrome, beyond privacy concerns with Google - and I’m unfortunately just not knowledgeable enough to know if MS is any better.&lt;p&gt;I personally use Safari. Because I’m on MacOS, I find Safari to certainly be the most immediately responsive, UI&amp;#x2F;UX-wise, and that’s pretty much what matters to be, since it’s all WebKit under the hood.&lt;p&gt;I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eshyong</author><text>&amp;gt; I don’t see the benefit of Edge beyond Windows users dealing with a less shitty browser out of the box.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; benefit, considering &amp;gt; 75% of the world still uses Windows.</text></comment>