• Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It literally took me less than ten minutes to set up firefox. I carried all my bookmarks and passwords from edge and set up a mozilla account and everything is synced across linux, windows and android.

    The only thing I’m worried of, is if some websites require chrome to work, as was the case with some government sites that only worked with internet explorer in the old days.

    (Does anyone know if the default user agent is chrome? I used to log in a local streaming site from edge and it wouldn’t work, as it required chrome, but I used an extension to take care of the user agent. On firefox it works no problem.)

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      3 months ago

      Just use Edge on sites that don’t support Firefox, if you must use them. Same as how we used IE for government sites back in the day.

      • Time@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Why not use chromium or a hardened version of it? Edge is proprietary software.

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            3 months ago

            Yes, but Edge comes with a lot more proprietary components added.

            I would recommend installing ungoogled-chromium or using another hardened FOSS version of chromium instead.