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Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A now-inactive page at a Microsoft Azure development sites shows a page that reveals the first two extensions for the Microsoft Edge browser to be Pinterest and a port of the Reddit Enhancement Suite for Google Chrome. The page was identified by Twitter user H0x0d, and is now only accessible via Google Cache.
I was wondering the same thing. Tried it when first upgrading a couple of machines to Windows 10, ignored it ever since. From a quick search, Edge seems to be roughly in the 1.7-2.8% market share range (e.g. netmarketshare) this month, which actually seems seems high to me; since Windows 10 has 9% of the desktop OS market share for the same timeframe, that means fully a quarter of Windows 10 users are finding Edge good enough to stick with it. Then again, I guess for basic web browsing by non-technical users, it probably does the job; that segment of users probably wouldn't know about or use the features that Edge is missing even if it had them, so that's probably reasonable.
Oh no... it's the future.
I use it quite a bit on my media PC, as the PC is rather underpowered, and the entire Edge rendering is hardware accelerated, including flash video. Chrome is nearly as quick on that PC, but it just doesn't have the hardware acceleration that Edge offers. The lack of extensions is very noticeable, as is the lack of quite a few other standard browser features, but that will improve over time.
So yes, people are using Edge, because it already can do some things other browsers can't.