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aydyn10/12/20245 repliesview on HN

None of those things are anything close to killer features much less reasons to switch. Verticle tabs, seriously?


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KetoManx6410/12/2024

Sorry that your personal use case doesn't match my use case and workflow. You keep using your tools and I'll keep using the ones I like.

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jocoda10/12/2024

Split screen done well would be a killer feature for me. Last time I looked Edge support was ok, but not great. But what kills Edge for me as a daily driver is the basic usability in managing bookmarks and tabs. It's stop and go for every basic operation like dragging objects while Firefox is simply a continuous flow. Firefox is invisible, Edge just gets in the way all the time.

Otherwise Edge is not bad at all. Chrome without MV2 is dead to me.

skotobaza10/12/2024

People spend a lot of time in the web browser. So yes, they want to have a comfortable experience with it. And those features are deal breakers for a lot of people. So stating that they are not killing features is just unreasonable at best and ignorant at worst.

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dikei10/12/2024

> Verticle tabs, seriously

Yes, I use Edge due to its vertical tabs

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ysabri10/12/2024

It is all a gimmick but as long as people are switching to a chromium based browser and not Firefox I'm happy. With that said, I don't know how anyone would trust a small team to build them a secure and safe browser. Chrome is so battle tested at this point and Google puts a lot of resources in maintaining it, they stand to lose a lot more given their scale.

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