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Christopher King

Edge is a disaster, and it’s very lack of usefulness is precisely why no one is going to be interested in using it by the time Microsoft gets its act together

Robert Marks

I “upgraded” to Windows 10 yesterday and today Edge is now locked up with a brand new virus telling me my hard drive will be deleted. It took less than 24 hours for Edge to break when I have been using IE for years with no problems that couldn’t be solved with a reinstall. I have now relegated Edge to the “never used apps” section of my computer. I am now spitefully writing this from Chrome as my computer needlessly uses half of the processor to run whatever it is Chrome does. On a side note, who ever runs this site is an @$$ hole for making me register an account just to leave one comment about Edge. I also assume I will be getting endless emails about restaurants once I hit the “submit” button.

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Nobody forces you to make an account on our website. You can comment without hitting the Register button. Just complete the comments form with your name, e-mail and your comment. It's as simple as that. And please mind your language!

Christopher King

I see, so because you’re upset over what’s happening with Microsoft Edge because YOU don’t have a decent anti-malware program, you’re going to take it out on everyone else. FYI, you didn’t need to create an account to leave a comment. You just needed to leave a name and an email address, which is common practice everywhere on the web.

There’s an app called “Contact Support” on Windows 10. It will put you in touch with Microsoft Windows 10 staff who should be able to help you out with this problem.

Alternatively, you can go into the Restore options in Settings and do a complete Refresh, which will reset your Windows 10 settings back to their original installation ones, or you can just go back to whichever OS you were using previously, providing you do it within 30 days of installing Win10.

Best of luck. I’ve been just as mad as you are when things like this have happened to me.

Scott

As an IT professional, I’m trying to use Edge as exclusively as possible so that I can give my users the best possible explanation of why they should or should not be using it nearly exclusively as well. Unfortunately, I’m finding a number of annoyances that led me to this page. In regard to your points:

1. & 3. Edge is *supposed* to be as minimal a browser as possible to prevent the most secure interface possible. This is why it doesn’t support any extensions or plug-ins and probably never will. The fact that it can’t properly display a number of websites (especially those that use older DOM and HTML models) is why it will never be used exclusively for pretty much anybody. But it’s a good start.
2. I don’t often drag files into a browser window since I don’t often use the browser interface for cloud storage providers like One Drive and Google Drive, but this is good to know. What I DO often try to do is drag the icon for a particular website from the address bar to a folder to create a shortcut, however this is also not possible.
4. I don’t often use full-screen mode on the computers that have Win10 installed on them (either at work or at home), but my home theater PC is connected to a low-resolution TV (for the time being) and is running Win7, so that would have been a real pain to find out the hard way.
5. I find this quite annoying too since it’s my default habit: Open the browser or a new tab, click the address bar/omnibox, start typing. But in Edge you have to throw in a second – or third! – click on the address bar before typing is even possible. Even more annoying though? If Edge doesn’t already have the current focus (like when two windows are displayed on the same screen or when using dual+ monitors and focus is on another window), this same problem happens for LINKS of all things! Infuriating!
7. I *really* miss the “Go to [highlighted URL]” found in Firefox and Chrome when doing a right-click, but this is also not an option in IE, so it’s not exactly unexpected to be missing. All of the other, standard context menu items like “Search Google” or even “Search Bing” would be nice.

Scott

And another problem I keep having that’s not on your list at all: Edge often closes itself down randomly and with no error message of any kind. I have it set to re-open the tabs I already had opened (just like I do in Firefox, Chrome, and IE), so this is only *highly* annoying instead of *superbly* annoying since it’s happening with my PRIMARY web browser, but at least it opens up again without any trouble and re-loads all of my many tabs – though that does take a few seconds to even show that it’s opening more than one tab sometimes.

Steve the wonder puppet

You were lucky. Because of Edge we lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, Satya Nadella would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Bkhuna

Luxury. We had to live in a lake.

GHynson

I’ve been using “Opera” browser since version 3.
Haven’t used any other browser since then,…

Bob

Notice it’s called “Edge”, because its use is edge-case only, and it’s at the edge of usefulness. It’s not called “Point” because it doesn’t have one.

Ayush

Well, Egde is good browser, but I prefer my Mozilla Firefox which I have optimized to a great extent using the wealth of addons which it offers, there by adding more features.

Dr. Sir Roberto Gomez Jr III Senior

This browser lacks security. I have a virus on it that redirects me to adult sites. Now i’m addicted to scat porn and my wife has left me.
#ThanksObama

Bkhuna

I use RSS daily. It is the reason I hang on to IE and eschew Edge.

Chris

> Microsoft Edge is not a bad web browser.

You’re completely delusional. A browser that needs to open another browser to display older code is ridiculous. Can you imagine Firefox spitting out a message saying, “you’ve reached an old webpage, you need to open in Netscape instead — click here to launch Netscape”.

Edge is horrible anyway you look at it. If “speed” is all Edge has, that says it’s not very good as the speed differences are negligible.

fatbastard

Edge eats up so much of the CPU! The system pauses waiting for edge to do whatever it is doing (why does a browser doing NOTHING eat up 180mb of memory).

It is fast when you first open it but after that…..aweful
there is obviously too much going on and no throttling to manage the load. I had edge open, moved over the the desktop to make a new folder to drop something I was downloading into……the screen went green for 3 seconds….then the icons came back then the background returned and the new folder then allowed me to name it…..I thought really……so I closed Edge tried it again…..no sweat, instant folder……there is something about Edge that allows web too much control on my CPU……..try uninstalling it…..it makes the flu look easy to get rid of….

John IL

I’ve used Edge browser off and on through its iterations of updates. It has gotten much better to a point a casual web users might not be turned off. At least not so much as to install another browser. But then again there is a typical human response for many to go with the crowd and obviously Google Chrome has attracted bar none the biggest user base since Internet Explorer back in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Like many other products in competition with each other, for whatever reason your going to have the products that set the bar for the rest. Probably why Microsoft decided to implement Chromium engine into Edge after several years of not attracting many users. Yeah bad for Firefox and non chromium browsers. But the web will obviously have a more solidified browser engine to work with. In many ways this is a plus for web users and developers. This doesn’t mean diversity in web browsers is dead. On the contrary we have many different web browsers in development today then ever before. Its just that most use the same blueprint in chromium but they are very much different browsers with different features.

Anonymous

A very mature perspective. Thanks for sharing it. 😉

Steven Cataldi

Microsoft Edge is a disgrace!

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

The new version, based on Chromium, isn’t. We will write many articles about it. As you will see, it is much better, and it has some really interesting features.

Dorothea Hester

Microsoft keeps telling me my password is incorrect, I changed my password, saved my password, then was told my password was incorrect and I have tried too many times, this is not the first time this has happened, it’s extremely frustrating just trying to get into my account. Why doesn’t the program just remember me? The last time I tried to send a document via Microsoft, it wanted me to fill out a contact, like just entering the e-mail address, attaching the document and hitting send isn’t good enough. It works in Yahoo