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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

Yet another shitty web browser.

• /tag/microsoft-edge-extensions

• With parts based on Chromium

  • Now completely obsoleting/replacing Internet Explorer by providing something of a compatibility layer or some such.

• Meant to coax people away from Internet Explorer.

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• offline installer

• bug 7134034 - Edge does not fire wheel events when scrolling using the 2-finger scroll gesture on a Precision Touchpad

• 2019-12-24 - 44.18362.449.0 on Windows 10

• 2018-11-13 - 42.17134.1.0 on Windows 10

2019-12-24 - 44.18362.449.0 ∞

Microsoft Edge 44.18362.449.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.18363

• There is no "save as" feature!

  • The solution was to use "Print to PDF" (Menu > Print)

2018-11-13 - 42.17134.1.0 ∞

Microsoft Edge 42.17134.1.0
Microsoft EdgeHTML 17.17134

For as long as I've tried it, it's has been shitty as fuck playing Bloons Tower Defense 5 (Flash). Using the keyboard is extraordinarily slow.

I've seen something of a similar issue with Pale Moon, such that I have to right-click to get the context menu in order to have flash stop its hiccup and work again, but even that isn't working any more for its distinct version of Flash.

Basically fuck Flash.

Edge is also slow as fuck, and the scroll wheel doesn't work.

Setup and usage ∞

Privacy hole.

• Cookies and Site Permissions > PDF documents

  • [_] PDf View settings - to remove "opening PDFs to last view location when you reopen files"

Open favorites in new tab ∞

You can directly visit edge://favorites/ or:

1. left-click ...
2. right-click Favorites

3. click "Open favorites page"

Open favorites as a right-side column ∞

1. control-shift-o
2. left-click ...

3. click the pin icon to the right

Open new tab as blank page ∞

This is not possible natively; they want to advertise to you.

• Blank Tab for Microsoft Edge

  • (on Edge Add-ons store)

1. Visit Blank Tab for Microsoft Edge on the Edge Add-ons store
2. Install add-on
3. Visit edge://extensions/
4. [x] Blank Tab
5. control-t

6. say yes to the popup

Do not close browser with last tab ∞

This is not possible natively; it is an upstream missing feature from Chrome.

This is apparently a WONTFIX.

• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/stop-edge-from-closing-when-close-last-tab/m-p/431310

• https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/7c412bf6-e48c-ec11-a81b-0022484c51ef

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• The Chrome extension Last Tab Keepalive doesn't seem to work.

• Don't Close Window With Last Tab reads your browser history.

Alternatives ∞

• /tag/web-browsers+loved+live

• /tag/web-browsers+loved+zombie