Microsoft Edge (linux ver)

Brucehankins No more than having a phone with a camera on it in the US. Somebody's always watching. Really, if you are on the internet in anyway, you have to understand you're sacrificing some of your privacy and data for utility or convince. Other than being Chinese, they haven't had anything that raises giant security red flags that I know of.

Brucehankins Nothing, we only have a choice to pick who can spy on us. Chinese or USA? Decision is up to you.

RobertK that's the beauty of choice. This thread got me thinking, am I missing out on something? I downloaded Brave and Vivaldi to give those a go.

I've been an ardent Firefox user for many years. No complaints. Since last week, I've been trying out Brave upon my wife's recommendation. Not bad, seems to use less memory. I do prefer FF layout though. Will see how it goes ....

elfprince Please report back. That whole Brave 'we will block an ad with one of our own ads' thing always creeped me out and rubbed me the wrong way, probably because I never understood it. I'm happy with FF but always been curious about Brave.

brent Didn't notice any such things. but I did disable all nonsense in settings.

jppelt Waterfox seemed to be ok was trying it out on deb install got where it wouldnt install (waterfox Problem) so i deleted it..lol then that system crashed. Then crashed my solus install on updates. But back to your question I think it was alright and it was being actively updated havent tried it for awhile not sure how its matured just looked at website seems still active I had no real problems they have an appimage https://appimage.github.io/Waterfox_Current/

I've been testing/evaluating the new Edge since April 2019, first on Win10, then Android, then iOS. Microsoft has done a good job of unGoogling the browser, and I'm satisfied that the Edge offers a reasonable level of privacy within the Microsoft ecosystem. Edge is still something of a work in progress, but all the basics are in place in the Win10, Android and iOS Stable builds, and I assume that Edge on Linux will get to that point in a matter of months.

I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for 15+ years but am willing to consider moving to Edge if and when a stable release is available on Solus. However, because my Solus install is a production install, I'm not interested in using any apps (including Edge) that Solus does not include in the repository. I've noticed that Solus includes various browsers (including Stable, Dev and Canary versions of Chrome) in the 3rd Party repository. Does anyone know whether Solus has any plans to do so with Edge?

tomscharbach Does anyone know whether Solus has any plans to do so with Edge?

It isn't redistributable and we have no plans on including it in Third Party (we're not accepting any new software in there). So Microsoft should probably support it as a snap.

JoshStrobl

Thanks for the clarification, Josh. It is what I expected. Microsoft seems to be primarily interested in enterprise suppliers (Canonical, RedHat, SUSE) in this and all things Linux (e.g. WSL2, the MS repository). I don't expect them to go beyond .deb and .rpm releases unless they release as a Snap or Flatpak, I'll see what they do down the road, if anything.

tomscharbach Well, they provide an official snap for Visual Studio Code, no reason they couldn't for their other apps

Wow guess there will always be a browser War!!...lol

Brucehankins Well you asked and I gave you my answer. Opera was a good browser, but to me it's gone downhill which is sad.

Been having trouble with firefox lately couldnt exactly figure why then was led to it by an extension update and further research it was (Nano-Adblock) its not in mozilla extensions anymore just for google chrome BUT! because of the new developers and code they added its now classified as (Malware) so please delete it in both chrome and firefox or do your own research if you use it. I have got decide what problems it could have caused now. Going back to old trusted ublock..lol
(P.s. kinda went along with the post in here just thought I would mention it)

Axios thanks for the tip. i have an adblock in FF but unsure it's Nano---nano is the creator or official name?
PS--umatrix also a beast

Axios Going back to old trusted ublock..

uBlock Origin by gorhill, yes ️

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/16/time-to-remove-nano-adblocker-and-defender-from-your-browsers-except-firefox/

Solarmass Axios took me a long time to see if i had the right adblocker. I just have "adblock"---non-nano.
Nano defender exists in the FF extensions store. Nano adblocker does not exist in this store. Sigh of relief. Appreciate the research of you both.

tomscharbach In one of the podcast I listen they invited some devs from Edge the reason they aren't shipping Edge to many distros, packages format, is because as this is still a Beta (it's actually more like an alpha) they would like not to have fragmentation in the start, more packages, more distros, more maintenance and developers or resources they will need.

They are not willing to afford this until there is an opportunity of demand and growth.

I truly understand their decision, Linux community has been really negatle about Edge coming here...