Microsoft Edge (linux ver)

jeremymolina Thanks for the information about the podcast. I agree with Mcrosoft's decision.

Unless you heard something to the contrary in the podcast, though, I doubt that Microsoft will expand release beyond .deb and .rpm packages once a Stable verison is released, unless it does so by issuing Snap/Flatpack Stable releases.

Like you, I suspect that very few Linux users will be interested in Edge, unless the users are operating in a mixed W10/Linux environment, most likely in a business or enterprise environment. Accordingly, I can't think of a good business reason why Microsoft would move beyond the business/enterprise customer base (Canonical, RedHat, SUSE) with respect to Edge on Linux. The cost/benefit just isn't there.

I like Edge, through, so I'll hope for a Snap or Flatpak release in time.

tomscharbach and jeremymolina -

this conversation regarding the business end of how these things work was interesting, thank you both.
I think at the end of the day any Linux opposition to Edge will be split regarding "is it linux functional or buggy?" vs. philosophical. Personally I'm the second one but to act on principal is a devalued and aniquated thing these days.

Wow, so much postings. So Iet me put in my two cents.
No one says anything about privacy when surfing in the net. It's the core business of Google, all (un)social media platforms to gather as much metadata as they can get from you. And M$ is one of those as well.
a browser should show you the tracking activities when you open some site.

[deleted] I don't subscribe to your point of view ecause it completely lacks nuance: A major difference between Google and Microsoft is that Google business model is based on the monetization of personal data while Microsoft incomes comes from selling subscriptions and licenses. The biggest problem regarding Privacy with Microsoft is that it that it openly collaborate with governments and grant them access to personal data without controlling if their request is legitimate or not.

[deleted] kyrios Like you said, Google earns it's revenue primarily off of advertising and Microsoft is building around recurring revenue packages. Two very different business models that take differing approaches to data privacy. It also seems to me that the companies like Google, Facebook, and others are always one step ahead of the browsers. Cookies are blocked, it can break a web page, or they have other ways to perform digital fingerprinting. It seems like you have to go to great lengths to obtain any small amount of anonymity.

Off-topic, I think an option that should be discussed is data portability and the right for the product (us) to monetize that information.

Brucehankins Anonymity online is a lure. A good practice is to consider that everything you post on the net is public. This being said, it is not hard to configure some mitigations. Blocking ads, tracking and 3rd party cookies, running social networks in containered tabs, not using facebook/google/etc. account to login everywhere, isn't hard to do.
You can go one step forward and block refferers, CDN, etc... replace yous ISP DNS but DNS that don't keep logs and possibly implement DNSSec, use a VPN, etc... Up to you to decide up to where you'd like to go.

By the way this isn't very different from the real world... Nowadays most payments are electronics, people have loyalty cards, you can't book annonymous flight tickets, CCTV systems operate in many places, radars on the roads, etc.

putzerstammer Just my opinion, but there is no such thing as more browsers than we need. ;-)

WetGeek ...there's very little chance that the CCP is interested in my browsing data... You'd be surprised.

jppelt I gave up on Waterfox when the developer was hired by a company to continue to develop the browser. I believe the company that hired him was an ad company. Ad companies and web browsers...not a good combination from a privacy perspective.

Edge on Linux: Thoughts from a Linux user
https://vivaldi.com/blog/edge-linux-browser-review/

test https://vivaldi.com/blog/edge-linux-browser-review/

Solarmass ...twice he says "but it's not vivaldi" thus not recommending it. But at least he wasn't obscuring his bias. And he was thorough. What I like about it is the warts and all honesty more or less. My favorite of a few memorable sentences was "Unsurprisingly the default search engine provided by Edge is Bing. " I didn't love it and I didn't hate it is the sum--but at least that reviewer dug somewhat deep and listed a lot of positives.

@JoshStrobl? my American word "favorite" gets underlined now! This is brand new! I love it. My spell check prefers "favourite." Is this a consequence of the Flarum thing today, or just a coincidental thing with Firefox and language packs on the same day? No complaint, it's awesome it sees me an ocean away, like I'm on 'holiday'

brent ...twice he says "but it's not vivaldi" thus not recommending it.

Well, he is from Vivaldi team

Solarmass it's all good--it was a good article, thank you

jppelt There is also Vivaldi mobile version

Solarmass I looked for it for iOS...could not find it. Hopefully soon although I use DuckDuck go for my iPhone.