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Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel... if you're into that kind of thing
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2021
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This is beneficial for Windows enterprise shops with Linux users. Assuming their IE webapps migrate to Edge Chromium, it'll be super convenient for their Linux users.
Aside from that, everyone should be using non-Chromium browsers (Firefox, qutebrowser built with QtWebKit, lynx, ?????)
qutebrowser is based on Chromium, and lynx? Really?
Didn't know qtb was Chromium based, always assumed it was one of the good outliers :(
Lynx is performant enough for the majority of web text content, excluding sites that choose to impose terrible Cloudflare blocks
I can only see two use-cases for this: webdevelopers that need to make sure their website works well on all browsers, and also probably some corporate intranets with crap browser requirements. Otherwise, just as @[email protected] said, alternatives should be used.
If Google can do it then Microsoft can too