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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious... does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn't ever considered. Including one which means I'll have to install Edge, so... thanks, I guess. 😂

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It has a really good implementation of vertical tabs. Vivaldi and Firefox are somewhat close, but they're not nearly as polished.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Compared to sidebery plugin (ff)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It doesn’t do as many extra features that I don’t use, but for tabs and tab groups I prefer the Edge ones and grudgingly use Sidebery.

I hate the Firefox sidebar for most things anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dragging tabs around and to new windows is much less seamless, the having it contract and automatically expand on hover is much harder (userChrome.css hacks compared to a single button), and it requires a CSS hack to remove the horizontal tab bar. I use Tab Center Reborn myself, but Edge does it better than anything I've used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Brave has the closest comparison I’ve seen, they just don’t do auto hiding.