Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011

Sagebrush posted:

agreed

i don't really know what this thread is about but i saw a reference to Atom in it and holy poo poo, guys, way to make a plain-text editor that takes multiple seconds to start up on a 4GHz computer with 32GB of RAM, and actually visibly [

words

just a mite conceited to automatically assume your program can throw its weight around in the same manner as the most popular third party download on the platform

that being said since they're pretty much shipping a browser runtime they probably need to fastidiously keep it updated lest your identity get stolen by a fleece-wearing russian sex offender

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011

akadajet posted:

edge is just rebranded ie with a somehow worse ui. ms should have just exited the web browser game

it's not even properly rebranded

'we want to rebrand our browser that everyone hates since it's now apparent that most people are able to download chrome by themselves; let's rework the entire ui and ship it without features that everyone uses BUT let's make sure to give it the same first letter and consequently a virtually identical logo to capitalise on the... brand loyalty? of the brand we're trying desperately to escape from???'

maybe they decided to write off the people who switched to chrome to concentrate on the reservoir of people who know the web entirely as 'the e icon on the desktop'. either way it's a rebrand excecuted with the confidence and panache of a dog running away from the smell of his own farts

  • Locked thread