I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂

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    1 year ago

    It has a really good implementation of vertical tabs. Vivaldi and Firefox are somewhat close, but they’re not nearly as polished.

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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t do as many extra features that I don’t use, but for tabs and tab groups I prefer the Edge ones and grudgingly use Sidebery.

        I hate the Firefox sidebar for most things anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Dragging tabs around and to new windows is much less seamless, the having it contract and automatically expand on hover is much harder (userChrome.css hacks compared to a single button), and it requires a CSS hack to remove the horizontal tab bar. I use Tab Center Reborn myself, but Edge does it better than anything I’ve used.

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      1 year ago

      Brave has the closest comparison I’ve seen, they just don’t do auto hiding.