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Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look dept.

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.

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  1. What makes this legitimate? by brantgurga · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is nothing in the page's content or about its place of publication that suggests it to be potentially legitimate. I could have easily come up with a page published on Azure that had been unpublished to have this situation. This could be a hoax. I wouldn't trust anything about it until properly acknowledge or published by Microsoft.

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  2. Re:Anybody actually using Edge? by damnbunni · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a Windows 10 tablet, and Edge is the primary browser I use on it.

    It's the only browser that even comes close to having a touch-capable UI. Both Firefox and Chrome removed their touch UIs.

    Touch UIs suck on a desktop but they're rather important when you're using a, you know, touch device.

    If I'm using my tablet with a keyboard and mouse I usually use something else because Edge lacks adblock, but that's not a terribly common situation.

    Of the non-Edge browsers I've tried, Opera comes closest to being usable on a 9" touchscreen, but it's still pretty rough.