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Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated
An anonymous reader writes: Now that Windows 10 is close to launch, Anandtech has put Microsoft's new browser, Edge, through a series of tests to see how it stacks up against other browsers. Edge has shown significant improvements since January. It handily beats Chrome and Firefox in Google's Octane 2.0 benchmark, and it managed the best score on the Sunspider benchmark as well. But Chrome and Firefox both still beat Edge in other tests, by small margins in the Kraken 1.1 and HTML5Test benchmarks, and larger ones in WebXPRT and Oort Online. The article says, "It is great to see Microsoft focusing on browser performance again, and especially not sitting idle since January, since the competition in this space has not been idle either."
I wonder how easy it will be to block ads with Edge, and prevent tracking users. If I can't do that, I can't use Edge. The internet is no place for advertising.
"It is great to see Microsoft focusing on browser benchmarks again,"
You are welcome.
Last I heard it's not even going to be portable to Windows 7 or 8.
Hmm, maybe if it had lasers ....
On the other hand, I still don't need a new browser.
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Err we've been down this path before, its kinda where we came from.
I thought it was pretty unanimous that we DIDN'T want to go back.
Another?
Wake me up when Chrome, Firefox, or Safari comply with standards and don't shit things up in random ways every time they update.
Maybe we don't want to go back, but we sure don't want to stay here either. Google used to be a knight in shining armor, not so much these days. Their market share is big enough that they can get away with almost anything they want--so, put them up against competition again, and see if 'being the good guys' turns back into a desirable market strategy.
Yeah I'm not getting my hopes up either.
Too late for?..
I mean, anything that gives us an out from the Google ecosystem, without Firefox bloat, has got to be great.
So something fromMicrosoft will cure the problem?
You mean the people who allow people that you allow access to your wireless to share the password with the world?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Everyone running Windows 9 should be fine though.
Another?
Wake me up when Chrome, Firefox, or Safari comply with standards and don't shit things up in random ways every time they update.
Maybe some competition will stimulate the fixing of bugs.
... but I still cannot dock the dev tools into the tab I am working in... so I can't really take it seriously as a web dev yet.
With today's crappy browsers, the biggest factor in page loading is that the browser doesn't crash trying to render it.
the whole rest of the world will wait patiently for you to catch up
You mean the people who allow people that you allow access to your wireless to share the password with the world?
Do you really boycott every company that you find objectionable? How do you get out of bed? How do you even have a bed?
Do you have such an active imagination that you extrapolated that from my dislike of Wi-Fi Sense?
You having a bad day or somethig bro?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Come on. IF you look at my post history you can see i have been slamming MS for 15 years and even I think they are turning the ship. OneDrive, Office and Cortana on Android would have been unthinkable for MS 10 years ago.
Good-bye
Agreed, Google simply ignores negative user feedback: I've seen it with Google Maps and Google News, and I hear there are other instances as well. I've stopped using anything Google, not that it makes an ounce of difference to them.
Google used to be a knight in shining armor, not so much these days.
Google was NEVER a knight in shining armor. The only thing that changed was that they got caught pulling the same sort of shit just about every other corporation on the planet does, and now very few people believe that "don't be evil" nonsense. You got it almost correct - it was a "marketing strategy", not a "market strategy", and it was brilliantly done.
Giant corporations are like nuclear power plants. Their production capacity is pretty much unmatched, but you also have to take great care to ensure they don't run wild, and there's always some nasty by-products in exchange for that productivity.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
What do you mean "locked in"? You can easily download files from OneDrive and save documents from Office 365...it would be pretty useless if you couldn't do that.
Yesterday i converted a pdf to Word Online (free), uploaded it to Google Docs (free). I then saved it on Dropbox (2GB free), One Drive(15 GB free) Gdrive (15 GB free) and my personal NAS running linux (cost of hardware). Please explain where you see lock-in anywhere in this chain when my data moves freely among these disparate entities. I dont think you understand what 'lock-in' has meant historically.
Good-bye
It depends AC. If the user opens 10 or 200? tabs in one window for some reason?
Optical bandwidth, 64 bit OS, i7, real gpu, 32 gigs of ram can cover for a browser with slow code issues?
The browser has to be fast to serve ads, keep banking secure, keep the MS branding fresh in the users mind and be web standard compliant.
The days of only working with a MS web site creation application are over but the same MS branding issues will always be the same.
Fast is easy. Ad blocking, security, branding is the ongoing issue for M$. How much will any new computer cost with Windows 10 Pro?
Will ad blocking work? Will ads display at the desktop level if a brand pays enough vs the browser?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Google does okay and is less evil than some. Chrome even runs netflix in linux now apparently, though I haven't used that much. My biggest gripe about google is their maps program. It works quite well if you are online, but also inexplicably eats bandwidth quite fast. It seems to have some pretty drastic limitations when you are not online such that you probably want to use something else. From what I recall even if you save the map it doesn't work correctly when not online right? I know it did some incredibly strange things when I first moved, likely due to the crappy sprint based network I was on. Realistically google maps should at least have sygic's level of functionality when not online, and it doesn't, likely because google wants that usage data... They should fix google maps so you can download at least entire states while using a home network connection, and then auto update those periodically. It should also have minimal traffic when you are actually using it for navigation, and not require any of it. I doubt it ever happens, but it would be nice if they would stop crippling their product like that.
If you think the esoteric procedures described by the GP are too difficult, then perhaps you're on the wrong forum.
And before you say "but the rest of the world..." stop. Aside for that most people wouldn't bother with that level of redundancy, short of the linux NAS (which you can buy in most large computer stores ready to go - plug and play, so to speak) even my grandmother could figure out how to import a pdf to word online, and store it to as many cloud storage accounts as are bothered to sign up for. This is 2015. That stuff was complex and involved and required a lot of tech-savvy in the 90's, when you had to string your solution together yourself with bash scripts and cronjobs, etc, but we're talking about polished consumer-grade software here that pretty much anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together can figure out how to use the basics of.
"lt;dr" is the correct response to most of my posts.
Their statistics are what we pay for the service instead of money.
It doesn't make them evil to offer useful tools in exchange for usage metrics, it just means we have more options.
But sure, if you don't want to pay in metrics, put some of your money on the table for a solution that fits you better
But expecting Google to modify their money-free service into a totally free service (free of data collection) would mean that it's no longer funded, and you know what happens to unfunded software/services? I'll let you figure that part out on your own.
"lt;dr" is the correct response to most of my posts.
Every MS system or subsystem works great when it's coming out of its box.
No later than the first major Service Pack, it grinds to a halt. Sadly, especially with browsers, not patching is not an option due to the amount of security holes. The tinfoil hat wearing me would actually claim that they deliberately leave out important security checks to speed up execution so their latest turd shines in the all important pre-release performance benchmark, and reintroduce that safety checks again once nobody bothers to test it anymore, but that's just my private little conspiracy theory.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Microsoft has released both IE and Office on Mac. I'm sure they could consider releasing more Linux software as well, if Linux wasn't such an unpredictable trash platform on the desktop.
Cock-nugget. :D
Haven't heard that one before.
ie did run on Unix in the past.
Talk about confirmation bias. Google and Apple have done that crud as well.
Another? Wake me up when Chrome, Firefox, or Safari comply with standards and don't shit things up in random ways every time they update.
Wake me up when the standards are actually finalized and not "eh we'll get around to it, maybe, oh you know what, nevermind it's just a rolling release moving target now"
Haiku is UNIX? It's true what they say, you learn something new every day...
Oh, and Linux (not GNU/Linux for me, sorry) is not UNIX either. It's inspired by UNIX, absolutely, but it isn't technically related.
It works perfectly well for me.
thegodmovie.com - watch it
I always thought it was security and compatibility that drove people away from Microsoft browsers.
IIRC, there were versions running on the very earliest versions of Mac OSX, which was built from BSD Unix. I don't think Apple got the Unix certification until much later versions, though.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I suspect it was more than a marketing strategy, but a recruitment one.
It's entirely possible that "Don't be evil" started out sincere, but that sort of thing tends to slip when a company goes public.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Except, now, people are having to code specifics just to render in Firefox appropriately. It sucked having to do it for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It sucks having to do it for Mozilla's Firefox.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
All the things you listed were under Ballmer, not Nadella. They have ZERO chance of EVER being as powerful or influential as they were. Also, Nokia LET itself be consumed, they could have said no to the deal. Everyone and i mean EVERYONE knew what the 'burning platforms' memo meant.
Good-bye