'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular
3d 2h ago by reddthat.com/u/throws_lemy in technology from www.techradar.com
How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams for Friends and Family 2027.
People will still use it once to download another browser.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
winget install Google.Chrome
curl -L -o ubuntu.iso https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso
Yeah. This is better.
I have a USB-bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24 on it. Two home systems down, two to go.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft's security support. Historically, at least recently, the weekly updates and response to critical vulnerabilities and virus scanning have been pretty good. But now that they're attacking their own flagship products - Office and Windows itself - I think it's only a matter of time before they fumble Windows security in a big way.
I'll also predict that Non-pro Windows will eventually be "free" (as in beer), but will be useless without a live internet connection and cloud services. So now really is the time to switch. IMO, all the money points in that direction.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft’s security support.
That and their general quality control. It's already been happening. Their updates and new products have been having some serious issues with a lot more frequency over the last year. At least that's the strong impression I have. Oh, here's an article also calling this out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/microsoft_lacks_quality_control/ - apparently they may have started going down this path over a decade ago, but it seems to have accelerated since they started using Gen AI.
Newest post from Cory Doctorow is about exactly this https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes
Dude, that was a GOOD read. It's been a growing problem, before AI and entirely due to the infinite growth forced on companies by shareholder value.
I code, usually for utility or personal projects. I'm surprised how many software devs have shit code. It's not that their code doesn't work, they wouldn't have a job without it. No, it works well for now, until it needs to be maintained or updated, usually after the sloppy author is gone, and then it's a shit show. Suddenly all the corners the last guy cut need to be added in somehow, with the whole thing expanded to scope, and the code becomes unworkable, at worst, requiring a complete rewrite, or at best turns into spaghetti code that leads to the shit we have in our aging early adopters.
My biggest fear, and one that is not talked about in the article, is that we won't have any asbestos removers in the future. Generative AI is being fed it's own excrement and that's being leveraged as working code to new coders. When this really becomes a liability we won't have many left that can fix or figure out the fix cause it will have obfuscated all the usable info.
My biggest fear, and one that is not talked about in the article, is that we won’t have any asbestos removers in the future. Generative AI is being fed it’s own excrement and that’s being leveraged as working code to new coders. When this really becomes a liability we won’t have many left that can fix or figure out the fix cause it will have obfuscated all the usable info.
I think it's going to be a complete shit show. Here's the confluence of factors:
- From what little I've seen of AI code, it seems to write code that's even more shit than human devs. I'm not in software dev, but I'm in IT operations and also studying CS. What I've seen of AI code in IT (PowerShell scripts) looked like it wrote 10+ lines where one or two would have done the job. In other words, it's a form of obfuscation like you said.
- I strongly expect that fewer people are studying CS because they're getting the message that AI is taking all the dev jobs. That's true for the moment.
- Fewer coders are being hired, so there will be even fewer experienced devs in the future.
I think that this will all add up to a "dark ages" of software development in the not too distant future. There just won't be enough people to fix all the AI junk, and the AI junk will essentially need to be ripped out altogether. Software quality and security will go down the drain, and it will take forever to fix it, if it even gets fixed at all. I think it really will be equivalent to the "dark ages" (I know that this term is not considered accurate nowadays, but I think it applies even more to this situation).
I'm hopeful for one thing though: that this phenomenon will strengthen free open source software relative to commercial software. If there are a bunch of devs who can't get dev jobs, hopefully they will spend at least some of their time contributing to open source. On top of that, it appears to me that open source projects have been more resistant to accepting AI code. Let's hope that this is a silver lining here.
Thanks! I saw this linked on Mastodon but haven't read it yet.
Out of curiosity, why does everyone always go for Ubuntu in posts like this? I've always hated that distro; all my machines run Fedora instead. IMO Fedora with KDE is way better than Ubuntu with Gnome in terms of usability for people switching over from Windows, but maybe I'm just biased since I'm already super familiar with Linux
I run Zorin OS 18 on my desktop. I just commented Ubuntu since more people would understand the comments.
Also, for Surface tablets, I believe Ubuntu is the best option for touchscreen support.
Fair enough, thanks for responding
It took me way more than a decade of using Ubuntu before I got to a point of preferring Fedora, in spite of frequent distro hopping in periods when I was bored.
I think Fedora has gotten better in the last few years, but for me it also feels a bit more cold and unwelcoming maybe? Dunno, but I was always happy with Ubuntu until some really obscure dependencies got into conflict and I had to change things up. Canonical might not be the absolute best, but neither are Red Hat.
I'm also a Fedora KDE user and I agree with you. The only real gripe I have with it is that if you don't know about the full version of RPM Fusion, you'll get frustrated that certain things are missing or don't work right, and the GUI button to enable third-party repos after installation isn't enough. I personally just skip that button and enable the full version following the directions on their site and then use Discover to enable Flathub.
Ubuntu doesn't respect the spirit of free open-source software. They keep jamming stuff into their distro to increase their control. There are plenty of alternatives. (E.g. Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora or Mint for general-purpose distros.)
A version of Ubuntu that's nearly 4 years old?
The link is no longer working. I just needed a direct link to make the point that’s it. Recent versions have buttons to download with script.
Use curl.exe otherwise you might invoke the default powershell alias curl which has different syntax (just learned of this here somewhere some time ago in a meme)
I refuse to use or recommend American distros.
I can confirm Debian 13 works great for newbies.
It’ll just be called Microsoft Copilot.
None of you are in an abusive relationship with the cruel mistress that is Windows and her accursed family and it shows.
Personally I’m excited for when they rerelease regedit as Windows Copilot, MFS as (Co)Pilot, and Purble Place as Copilot Kids Demo.
There was an idea mooted over on Mastodon, that Flight Sim will be renamed Copilot Copilot. Rolls off the tongue.
There was an idea tooted over on Mastodon
& Knuckles
Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series
New Funky Mode
Gotta go... In a different direction?
Up and down and all around
You forgot the (classic)
with Teams for Friends and Family
OMFG I’m crying
Sounds like it comes with a free trial of Norton.
Slodge?
Microsoft Copilot App (zero indication it's web)
So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).
Internet Copilot One X.
Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.
Edge Copilot 365
They tack 365 on every product for no reason.
Explorer. Always has been.
M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
Step One: Install literally any other browser
Step Two: Make new browser the default
Step Three: Forget that Edge exists
Peace.
- Repeat step two forever when Microsoft decides there was a problem that can be solved by resetting your default browser.
You know what the true Step One is.
Step 0. It just goes without saying.
I wish I wasn't such a coward about this.
Three questions for you:
- Will I be able to run Blender without issue?
- Can I run Steam/Steam games easily?
- Will Discord work?
Will I be able to run Blender without issue?
The free and open source 3D creation software developed on Linux and primarily run on Linux? Yeah, you should be fine.
Can I run Steam/Steam games easily?
Absolutely. Games that have a problem running on linux are mostly contained to this with anti-cheat. You can verify your game's compatibility with protondb.com.
Will Discord work?
Of course. Discord has a linux native client.
Thanks
FYI: You are already on Lemmy, the most Linux friendly place on the Internet. If you ever run into trouble, just ask around. People here will love to help you.
Will do. Thanks again!
One last thing. Since you are completely new, are coming from a Windows background, and do more than just game, I'd suggest starting with Linux Mint (Cinnamon). You do not have to stick with that distribution forever, but it is probably the most painless introduction since it is Debian/Ubuntu based and most of the help/articles you'll find on the Internet are focused on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. Debian based distributions are more of a "set it and forget it" experience. Nice and boring.
Other major core distributions that are different from Debian/Ubuntu include Red Hat (Fedora), Arch, and OpenSuSe. Red Hat (Fedora) is a good choice for corporate users since Red Hat is the defacto Linux distribution for the corporate world. Arch is great if you REALLY want to learn Linux and truly get into tinkering with its guts. OpenSuSe is the European option and what some European governments are ditching Windows for.
That's very helpful. Thank you, again. I think I'm going to set up a partition and play with it so I can sort of have one foot in and one foot out to not disrupt my workflow too much while I figure things out. Wish me luck.
Mint also makes setting up dual boot pretty painless. In a few months you may wonder why you still have windows installed taking up space.
Everybody and their mother will have recommendations on their favorite flavor of Linux, but as somebody else about to make the switch with similar priorities as you, I'd suggest also taking a look at Bazzite. It's built on the same distro as the SteamOS and comes in at least two flavors for what your use case is. One of its selling points is that it's an "immutable" version of Linux, which means that it's a lot harder to accidentally break it as a new user.
good luck! Linux Mint is a very beginner-friendly distro!
To top that off, you can dip your toes in by running a live image off a USB thumb drive to check if your hardware is recognized and supported out of the box. I have used Linux for 10-15 years, but never for gaming. This year I made the final jump, the one thing I had kept windows for. I don't play competitive games with anticheat, and everything is running great. I anticipated more bullshit, because 15 years ago, Linux was not so polished. At this point I'm fine with running Linux on elderly folks PCs. It's finally "good enough" to do just about everything and legitimately excels at most things.
Man, this comment made me feel old :)
So much fun anti-nostalgia for trying to game on Debian fifteen years ago. This game doesn’t really run in WINE, but if you feed the Konami code into launch arguments then you might get working except upside down and in black and white. Oh, you wanted sound with that? Let me introduce you to my main man, ALSA. He’s a dick.
The kids of today will never know the pain. Proton is a game changer.
Discord didn't play nice with Linux for me. It wouldn't update and then discord wouldn't let me sign in. Had to go thru a multi step process each update to fix it. Only discord did this.
Were you using the Flatpak version? You may have better luck with that. There are also a variety of third-party Discord clients for Linux. I've been using GoofCord without issues so far, but it's early days.
https://flathub.org/en/apps/search?q=discord
I want to reenforce the other response you got with yes to all of you questions. I use steam and discord daily on my Linux install. I don't use blender, but as mentioned is was developed for Linux, so should have no issues. If you have an old laptop or something around, try flashing on a distro and give it a whirl. Otherwise you may be able to get something dirt cheap on Craigslist if you want to have a lengthy try without configuring a dual boot, running off the install drive, or nuking your current setup.
I went all in on mine fairly blind and it's one of the best decisions I've made in a couple of years. Go with something more stable if you're hesitant or not well versed in computers and terminal. I went Arch because I wanted to force myself to learn more about how Linux is built and operates. It took me a full day to get loaded to a desktop mostly reading the wiki and deciding what items I wanted and how I wanted them configured. Linux 10 years ago is so different from the current versions, so if you've tried it before with issue, forget that experience and treat it as a first time experience.
Games run easily, but there are some that won't run at all. Mainly those that use anti cheat and kernel level shit. Discord does work, but i remember that maintaining it updated was a pain in the ass. In any case, I didnt use it that much so..
Discord does work, but i remember that maintaining it updated was a pain in the ass.
It may be better to run it as a Flatpak. There's not only an official Flatpak for it, but also various third-party clients available too: https://flathub.org/en/apps/search?q=discord
Fuck BF6 anyway. lol
Thanks!
I've been using my Steam Deck as my PC, which is Arch Linux. Blender's only issue for my casual use is that GPU rendering isn't supported, so for any big rendering job, cloud would be necessary. Otherwise, a more powerful machine would be better, but as for the OS, it's totally fine.
Adobe is another issue. Substance is available on Steam, but I think it's not updatable.
Absolutely.
Just need a way to admin Active Directory from Linux and I’m set…
This makes me think about the hospital I used to work at that had an old 386 parked in the shop running the HVAC system. They had it completely off the network and had to keep it because it was the only way to run the proprietary HVAC control software and would cost an absurd amount of money to upgrade to be compatible with modern systems and it still did its job.
I imagine a future where there is a computer like that running windows 11 in some basement and new employees are trained "don't even think about touching this thing, its doing its job."
Don’t have to worry about that, win11 isn’t reliable enough for that.
We had a similar situation for a voicemail system though.
Good point, it'll just be XP, which is already happening in lots of places.
We still have handful of those around at work. 2000, XP and maybe some embedded variant of 98 too still somewhere. They are controlling some non-critical but still useful industrial stuff with stupidly large price tag to replace.
Specially XP is still going to be around for quite a while in industrial settings where the production line is controlled via single computer and replacing it would mean replacing the whole line with price tag potentially in millions. And those aren't even that old machines, their planning and manufacturing just takes "a while" due to certifications and everything.
Just need a way to admin Active Directory from Linux and I’m set…
What's wrong with Active Directory Web Services? It's installed on every DC by default since WS2008R2.
You could also install PowerShell on your Penguin box and do tasks via command line.
@RedstoneValley@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
In my case I would never get past asking to use a Linux machine on the network
Honest question, is the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module available for Linux PowerShell? I can't seem to find a clear answer from a brief search.
I actually don't know. I'll have to try it.
No worries, thanks!
Oh let me know if you find a solution. This is a task I have to accomplish this year too.
Step five:
https://www.sordum.org/downloads/?st-edge-block
Better to link to the main page rather than the download page that immediately tries to download the app.
https://www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v2-0/
Sadly I doubt my employer would take kindly to me using this tool.
Even better remove Edge all together via Wintoys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjc19jV9Q7k
Step 1: Linux
There are no other steps.
Step Three: Forget that Edge exists
Open a PDF on Windows 11 - Edge is the default app.
Use the search bar for search, click on a result, even though it's not your default browser Edge opens the result.
And there are many other examples. Setting a default on Windows 11 is now extremely obnoxious and requires that you set many file types manually.
Get upset with my old tools that decide to open in edge anyway (vestiges of IE). Or the bullshit microslop pulls and opens their links in edge rather than the default.
Is that not what we already do?
It certainly should be.
I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook
Your tools actively make my job HARDER
It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.
It does this from Outlook on android too. It's horrid
Settings > Open links in
"AI-powered browser" Who exactly do these marketing people think will be impressed by that? Is it supposed to appeal to hardcore tech people? Non-techies?Will literally anyone be swayed by that blurb?
Certainly not me or you.
Bless you, hero
Thanks, you're the hero we need in these dark times
Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It's vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that's gone there's no boon to using edge anymore and I'll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.
Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.
Firefox has tree style tabs add-on. Gamechanger
It's built into Firefox now.
really? able to nest nultiple times etc?
I'm not sure about nesting, but Containers works well with them.
Edge was fine
When? it always sucked monkey balls.. when MS finally gave up and turned Edge into basically chrome with an ugly theme, it was a leap forward... but they soon enshitified it so bad it quickly became a complete bloated mess
As a base browser. I think edge is better than standard Chrome if you want Chromium.
why? (if you don't mind me asking)
I find it slower than chromium with a ton of oddly organized settings
It's developers tools, as is is better than chromes.
And like i said in my original comment it's vertical tabs are one of the best implementations out there at the moment.
It has sensible tab folder features which I usually don't use in other browsers but in edge they're great.
It also has what they call workspaces that keeps the exact state of your tabs across signed in instances if the browser irregardless of device (it even syncs in real-time - which has helped me in times at work when i can remote into multiple different devices on our network).
Granted i can understand on personal devices the signed in workspaces may sound awful to most but on a device where i already have to be signed in to a Microsoft account for work anyway, it's a moot point for me. My work laptop is the only windows device i have in the house if that's worth any merit. Windows is awful, getting worse by the way and edge will soon be following suit so even though I'm praising it in its current state, I can't see me continuing to do so for much longer.
Oh didn't know Edge has workspace that functions similar to Firefox multi container. Not that I am going to change to Edge, but it's still neat.
Are the vertical tabs better than Vivaldi? If tabs are the metric, Vivaldi is better.
My primary is Firefox because fuck chrome, but if I had to compare Edge to other chromium implementations I would go with Vivaldi.
Vivaldi is unusable for me because you can't have the bookmarks bar only show on the new tab screen, and they seem unwilling to add that in to save face in a few discussions they've had about that feature, it's weird.
My primary is Firefox too by the way.
How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.
When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.
Windows Mobile was the most popular mobile OS in the US during mid 00s. But it was all downhill from there
Would you happen to have a source for that? Admittedly this is based on nothing more than my anecdotal experience living through it, but I owned a PocketPC back then and I distinctly remember feeling like I was in the minority compared to Palm or Blackberry.
MS doesn't care about home users, hasn't in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.
If you're running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.
Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.
“Sir, a second slop has hit production”
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.
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
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.Firefox
I 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.
This post gave me the last push to defy my employer's stupid policies and install Waterfox in lieu of Edge... thanks MicroSlop
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.
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.
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.)
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.
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Copilot Firefox Downloader
Internet Copilot
Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
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
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.
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.
At my work we call the 'granny browser'.
My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn't available.
I never got an issue with copilot, at least in Visual Studio (only one I use).
Make repetitive tasks like unit test a breeze. And very useful for debugging issues with tools like Entity Framework.
I switched to full Linux on my personal hardware though. I only use Windows for work.
That sounds like GitHub Copilot though.
Hmm slop, edge, sludge
People still use Internet Explorer - oh - I mean Edge?
Lots of companies have it as the one and only option. Worked so well with internet explorer for them, I believe.
https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115847256774525577
"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.
Now when people try to use Bing Copilot app to download a normal web browser, it can talk them out of it while introducing them to all the other Copilots and their apps
Is that before or after copilot attempts to talk them into offing themselves?
That's if they say "no" after the first pitch.
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
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.
My Linux Distro came with Firefox preinstalled, so I never had to use Edge either :)
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/.
"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!"
Fuckin dummies. lol
Looks like all these sloppy tech companies are gonna need a massive bailout soon
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.
Oh my slop!
Edge? The only people who use that are old boomers "because it came with the computer".
Work browser. Same place I only use Windows.
Meh. I disabled it in the registry
Edge or the slop? I'm not really a Windows guy.
Edge. Got tired of Windows defaulting to it every time it opened a Microsoft site.
I wish Bill Gates would publicly trip and fall on banana peels like Bezos does.
I guess that's one way to outdo Internet Explorer.
Microslop Edge
My use of Edge is pretty much only for opening PDFs.
Pfft, Firefox can do that.
;)
I'm very glad I'm using Vivaldi (which is a Chromium browser, but still)
Ok. It just looks the same to me other than the forced material design cues.
SlEdge
I’m at the point where I only have edge installed for webserial.
At what point do we stop caling it late stage capitalism and start calling it post capitalism? This is going beyond a captive market, at this point they're outright making products no one wants and forcing it on us anyway by removing the alternatives. If late stage capitalism was the offer of shit or nothing this is escalating to just shoving a tube down our throats.