The best msedge era for me was just as vertical tabs came out.
The Browser was really slim, hat some interesting UI Design choices that set it apart from chrome.
Nowadays it has so many adware elements and pointless settings that I don’t really enjoy using it anymore.
My day to day browser is ff and I’m mainly using chromium based browsers for development and compatibility checks, as well as on my laptop to save power when watching videos.
Yeah what the hell is going on?
There was a lawsuit and in Windows 7 Microsoft was forced to offer a browser choice program that allowed users to pick different ones.
Nowadays everyone just forgot about that?
Browser lock in is worse than it ever has been since the 2000s and is approaching levels of monopolistic behavior we haven’t seen since the internet explorer vs Netscape debacle, if not already worse than that.
Every ecosystem forces their own browser and the only way to circumvent it is with hacks.
To access certain one drive elements on android in the browser with Firefox, it tells you to open the page in chrome to proceed. If you do that, the Microsoft login page then asks specifically for using edge to sign in.
It’s insane that nobody cares. I went back to Firefox as soon as manifest v3 was announced, but nobody cares.
It’s alarming and once people realize what happened it’s too late.
That seems cool. I’ll definitely try that out, thanks for sharing!
Already using sponsor block and that saved me quite a bit of time!
That’s always the one I’m thinking of when anyone mentions the xkcd.
npm is one crazy infrastructure.
Plex has a few more features with plex pass.
However I switched to jellyfin a few years ago because I found everything to be too limiting and dependent on them. Including the necessity to pay for codecs / playback on some of their mobile apps.
Jellyfin is a lot less polished, but it works well and you’re in control of everything.
I would recommend trying out jellyfin first. If you encounter some deal breaking issue or aren’t happy with it, check our plex.