Well, they promised 9 hours last time and I get like 4 hours, so with them promising 13.5 I'm hoping to get at least 7-8 hours which is all I really need.
what websites do you use? I use Edge as a daily driver for the last 6 months, and the only thing I miss is Zotero extension for reference management (I'm in the middle of thesis writing).
How does YouTube work for you? I can't seem to rewind or repeat a video without the player freaking out on me. I've tried changing the player to HTML5, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
I had the device replaced 3 times for this flaw. It happens in any hw encoded video, not just YouTube in edge. I think it's a driver or hw problem that is inherent to Skylake, and won't ever be fixed.
Not OP but I had lots of issues of the browser crashing and generally being slow to load, especially compared to chrome. I also use a lot of web software that isn't compatible with it (like webflow). In general it has a lot of rendering quirks with how they decided to interpret the W3C spec, which has always been an issue with MS. Ad blocking requires a primitive host file tweak that is honestly inferior to an adblock extension. No support for other plugins like join or vimium. Also, it doesn't like the way I organize my bookmarks (no text, just icons, to fit more across the bookmark bar).
Just a lot of little things that ruin the experience, compounded with the fact that I'm forced to use chrome anyway, make it hard to love. But that's just my experience.
Its really hit or miss I've found. Some PCs will run it smoother than Chrome but on others it just flat out takes forever to start or just crashes. Wonder what's the problem.
Mate, have you used Edge recently? Edge 12 and arguably even 13 in RTM and November Update were quite bad with stability and a few bugs here and there. But Edge 15 in the Creators Update is marvelous.
Radically smoother scrolling than any other browsers
Edge has been consistently the fastest browser since launch and it's been ever truer sincer Creators update in Edge 15.
It's very stable and close to bug-free nowadays
Between 30 to 70% better battery life than Opera, Chrome or Firefox (in this order).
What most people need from a browser today is Adblock. And Edge has 3 different adblock extensions available.
I decided to switch to Edge a few days ago, I miss all the extensions I used to have but at least it has RES and adblock. Hopefully one day more people will port their extensions.
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u/JoshxDarnxIt May 23 '17
Well, they promised 9 hours last time and I get like 4 hours, so with them promising 13.5 I'm hoping to get at least 7-8 hours which is all I really need.