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Completely false; there is a reason almost no-body uses Microsoft Edge while the majority prefers Chrome.

I'm 100% sure the top search query in any other search engine they place by default would be "google".

> there is a reason almost no-body uses Microsoft Edge while the majority prefers Chrome.

I think #1 reason is aggressive marketing.

I’ve been using MS Edge for a couple of years. Works OK, the only minor issue was annoying popups on e.g. youtube advertising Chrome. Fortunately, adblock worked.

Not really, the #1 reason is that came out at a time the most common explorer was IE8, and IE9 which was an improvement over 8 but still slow and clunky as hell (and no ad-blocking). The story would be different if Edge had existed back then, but then again Edge exists as a response to Chrome (before Chrome, browsers didn't even auto-update silently)

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