Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
you forgot ads. It’s going to get injected with ads
“Sir, a second slop has hit production”
Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it’s not that bad…
“What is my purpose?” “You download Firefox”
winget install -e --id Mozilla.FirefoxI actually have Firefox also installed on that machine, but some (internal) sites work better in Edge, so I mostly use Edge on that PC.
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome. It was actually just good enough to not really make you want to install a new browser unless it was your daily driver personal PC.
I’m really loving this new Microslop name.
Also… looks like someone bought www.microslop.com and redirected to their own site: https://www.philipncohen.com/
Ugh, that sucks. That domain could’ve been put to good satirical use.
Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.
I would have bought it for that purpose if it was available.
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Copilot Firefox Downloader
Internet Copilot
Renaming it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…
Windows -> MS copilotOS
Subscription-> MS copilot 365
Chatbot -> MS copilot chat
Office apps mished to one -> MS copilot work 365
Vs code -> Copilot Code
Visual Studio -> copilot studio
Azure -> MS Copilot Azure cloud
EntraID -> copilot Access
ActiveDirectory -> copilot Business manager
Visio -> copilot processes
Github -> copilot repo management (CoRaMa)
Intune -> ms copilot manage
Planner -> copilot task management plan
Teams -> copilot communication manager
Linkedin -> ms management ads copilot🧐 wonky enough?
It’s Copilot all the way down.
or, just copilot
Edge? Is that the app I used to install LibreWolf?
I don’t think I’ll ever consensually use Windows ever again.
I do quite bit of windows installs. I usually use edge once, to either set up chocolate or use ninite, and download sane stuff. Then I hide edge as much as possible.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
No need to use edge at all.
Never thought of using winget. Ninite or chocolatey work well enough, but yeah, nice.
My Linux Distro came with Firefox preinstalled, so I never had to use Edge either :)
Who the fuck even uses Edge?
I used it once to download Firefox.
I used it today to add a signature to a PDF.
You will be judged harshly. Next time just use an install file on a USB, you know, like someone who isn’t a shit eating corporate shill greedily guzzling the pendulous dong of microsoft, you piece of shit. I hate you and you deserve to be hated. Do better. Fuck.
/s, just in case…
I needed that /s
Enterprises
Required to use edge by work.
Unfortunately, my workplace stuck on Windows due to specific software we utilize. We’re not bound to any browsers tho. I find it cool that our sysadmins use only Firefox. (Maybe not anymore with how Mozilla began to push AI in their browser.)
Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.
It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download Firefox on a brand new windows install.
I didn’t used to be this guy, but… LINUX.
There is gateway software out there, folks!
Don’t jump off the deep end like this degenerate…
I’m running distro installs on perfectly set-up rigs and customizing the bios just to feel normal. I installed Wine and Proton on my Pebble just because I could. The other day I blew a guy so that I could talk to him about start-up efficiency and convince him to take an Arch boot drive from me that he promised to install on his 2008 dell mini PC. I told him it would run Skyrim!
Learn from my mistakes. Linux… not even once.
Sucking data out of an ethernet cable isn’t normal. But on Linux it is.
But seriously, did it run?
I mean, there were a few extra installs and whatnot, but hell yeah it worked, because that’s Linux, baby.
Edit: The part about the 2008 dell mini pc is inspired by true events, but it was mint, not arch, I don’t fuck with arch. And with some tweaking it did run skyrim.
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download
Firefoxa Linux ISO on a brand new windows install.
Im curious how many lemmy users have edge as their default browser.
I haven’t used a web browser made by Microsoft in 20 years, since I leaned how to create a web page. I saw how Microsoft was trying to take over the web by leveraging their monopoly to enforce their non-standards compliant crap.
I even took an A- over an A+ on that project because I refused to code a version of the site that would work better under IE. I just put a disclaimer at the bottom of the page saying that it was 100% standards compliant and if anyone experienced an issue viewing the page they should consider a upgrading their web browser.
I understand the Edge is supposed to be better than IE and more standards compliant or whatever, but given their history coupled with their anti-privacy practices, it makes any browser made by Microsoft a non starter for me.
Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.
This made me letting this create 🤭
Edge is built on Chromium
But that doesn’t mean Edge IS Chromium. Or that chromium is bad because of that.
“Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
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Did the article really not include a screenshot of the interface?
Edit: looks like the verge has some screenshots
https://www.theverge.com/news/854832/microsoft-edge-copilot-redesign-ui-features
It does look like garbage
The corners are so rounded wtf. And those “Explore” containers look like the Humane AI pin which failed spectacularly.
when did the verge has a paywall?
Last year they started that up.
They still have free articles, though, and they label them on the home page which are which.
I see. I mean I can’t really fault them but it does put the brakes on when I got hit. It still isn’t working to get me to pay, personally.
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS for whatever reason will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
Until they introduce Copilot in Powershell so that when you try do D/L another browser, it will chime in and explain you that you should first give a serious try to EdgePilot because it’s so much better and you won’t be disappointed! Here: I D/L its premium version instead of FF as you were trying to do, and I give you one month for free! \o/.
Ok. It just looks the same to me other than the forced material design cues.
