• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I gotta say I love that Microsoft has the self confidence to think that there are people who use edge on Linux.

      • urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Yea.

        It’s reskinned chromium. You can google it if you want. One of the top links is a .deb for me (I am running debian).

        • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          That’s … just what Edge is? On every OS it’s Chromium, they’re not shy about that fact. In fact they made a big deal of advertising that they were switching from whatever engine they were trying to half-bake when “new” Edge debuted.

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          1 year ago

          Oh my, I had absolutely no idea. How long until microsoft comes out with Microsoft Office for Linux and it’s just reskinned LibreOffice

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            1 year ago

            Edge is built on Chromium for every OS. When they developed it they said they were using Chromium. This is not special for Linux.

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      1 year ago

      I do. It’s more secure than any other alternative. Not private, but really, really secure.

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        1 year ago

        How is Edge secure in any way? It isn’t even open source & and both Google (Chromium) and Microsoft add their code to it, so even if Chromium were more secure than Firefox, you could just normal Chromium, couldn’t you?

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          1 year ago

          Not being open source ≠ not safe.

          Microsoft ships hardened Chromium basically, with sandboxing turned up to eleven.

          They also run their SmartScreen filtering on top of that.

          Also, Firefox is more private, not secure. Either you run LibreFox or it’s less secure than Edge by default.