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Comment by josefresco | Hacker News Reader

I don't get the anger, at this point Edge is interchangeable with Chrome. The only thing I "miss" are my saved password and extensions which can be easily imported. Complaining online is an international pastime though.

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It's not about the quality of the browser. The user has a setting to choose which browser to use, and they are disregarding it for their own convenience. It's anti-consumer and anti-competitive.

I agree, it's just "more of the same" for me and thankfully Edge isn't terrible like IE 6x etc.

> at this point Edge is interchangeable with Chrome

Then why would MSFT release Edge at all? maybe they should default to Chrome.

Why does Google develop Chrome? Why not just support Chromium?

>Edge is interchangeable with Chrome

Okay. What if I want to use Firefox though?

My daily driver is Firefox but I also have Chrome open (for Google products) and Vivaldi for personal surfing. Easy switch considering I'm already juggling browsers.

For example, Bing Chat is not available without using Edge, right?

I have no problems with MS making Bing Chat a "feature" of Edge.

It's not a technical problem.

It's more of an ideology about Microsoft forcing whatever they want on users.

20 years ago this was a problem you could blame exclusively on MS. These days, they'd be negligent not to leverage their platforms to promote other products because the competition (Google/Apple) does so on a similar level.

That others are doing it too is correct and irrelevant.

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