'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot and it makes me worry about the future of Windows 11
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From Micro$oft to Microslop? Copilot-inspired revamp for Edge stokes further AI rebellion
  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Step One: Install literally any other browser
    Step Two: Make new browser the default
    Step Three: Forget that Edge exists

    Peace.

  • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Get ready for:

    clicks hyperlink

    Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay

    Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.

    Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun

  • Tramort@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook

    Your tools actively make my job HARDER

    It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It’s vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that’s gone there’s no boon to using edge anymore and I’ll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.

      • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Edge was fine

        When? it always sucked monkey balls… when MS finally gave up and turned Edge into basically chrome with an ugly theme, it was a leap forward… but they soon enshitified it so bad it quickly became a complete bloated mess

          • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            why? (if you don’t mind me asking)

            I find it slower than chromium with a ton of oddly organized settings

            • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Its developers tools, as is is better than chromes.

              And like i said in my original comment it’s vertical tabs are one of the best implementations out there at the moment.

              It has sensible tab folder features which I usually don’t use in other browsers but in edge they’re great.

              It also has what they call workspaces that keeps the exact state of your tabs across signed in instances if the browser irregardless of device (it even syncs in real-time - which has helped me in times at work when i can remote into multiple different devices on our network).

              Granted i can understand on personal devices the signed in workspaces may sound awful to most but on a device where i already have to be signed in to a Microsoft account for work anyway, it’s a moot point for me. My work laptop is the only windows device i have in the house if that’s worth any merit. Windows is awful, getting worse by the way and edge will soon be following suit so even though I’m praising it in its current state, I can’t see me continuing to do so for much longer.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I do quite bit of windows installs. I usually use edge once, to either set up chocolate or use ninite, and download sane stuff. Then I hide edge as much as possible.