Microsoft Edge - Pinned Taskbar Icons Broken

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HAL 9000 said:
Don't ALL 'normal' Windows users only utilise Edge to download an alternative web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, etc) and then set that as their default browser - and NEVER go near Edge again?
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that's for the weak, never touch Edge even for that:
winget install --id Google.Chrome --exact
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or once I finally evolved to a higher state of being and left the Windows curse behind for good:
sudo apt install brave-browser
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NarrowBandFtw said:
people actually use Edge?!? :ROFL:

I'm guessing the same people pick co-pilot as their AI of choice :laugh:
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What's wrong with Edge, well besides the profile flags they broke ? It also handles a large amount of open tabs without loss in performance. If you have 365 business it works well together. Copilot is good at writing emails and working with Outlook, won't use it for more than that. Claude is pretty good for everything else. Google AI Studio works nice to draft application prototypes and visual stuff.
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
that's for the weak, never touch Edge even for that:


or once I finally evolved to a higher state of being and left the Windows curse behind for good:
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Google Chrome is memory hog and slows down the more tabs you have open. Edge is also based on Chromium. Rather look at Vivaldi then if you want something better. Unless you use Chrome for Dev due to its large user base and don't really care about performance.
 
RedViking said:
What's wrong with Edge, well besides the profile flags they broke ?
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Edge is Microsoft's too-little-too-late browser, they had to go Chromium to fix decades of awful sub-par browsers, no thanks, then I rather go with a browser family that saw the light much sooner

RedViking said:
If you have 365 business it works well together. Copilot is good at writing emails and working with Outlook, won't use it for more than that
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at work I do have 365 business, and yet NONE of us use co-pilot for anything at all :ROFL:, we rather pay for Claude licenses, some even out of their own pockets, THAT'S how shyte co-pilot is ... alas we use Teams, another shyte MS product, so co-pilot does get used to transcribe meetings ... very poorly transcribe them, but it's built in so what to do ...

RedViking said:
Google Chrome is memory hog and slows down the more tabs you have open. Edge is also based on Chromium. Rather look at Vivaldi
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see the second command line: I'm on Linux Mint and now exclusively use Brave browser
 
RedViking said:
How do one stop Edge from defaulting back to Bing as the default search engine whenever it updates?
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On major updates Microsoft can default back to the initial out of the box settings to replace what they see as unverified or outdated configurations (e.g. another search engine). This is even more so when there is Copilot integration where they would want to avoid migrating complex settings. This ensures that your system is stable, secure, and gives you maximum exposure to Microsoft's up-selling content.

It is similar to how that Xbox game bar can be reinstalled in a major update even though you removed it previously.
 
garyc said:
On major updates Microsoft can default back to the initial out of the box settings to replace what they see as unverified or outdated configurations (e.g. another search engine). This is even more so when there is Copilot integration where they would want to avoid migrating complex settings. This ensures that your system is stable, secure, and gives you maximum exposure to Microsoft's up-selling content.

It is similar to how that Xbox game bar can be reinstalled in a major update even though you removed it previously.
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Thank you. Glad Microsoft is taking so well care of us.
 
One alternative is to install the Chromium browser, the open source basis for Edge and Chrome. It works well without the added corporate BS of those browsers. It is updated on Linux via the package manager, but I have heard that on Windows you need to do this manually (someone may be able to comment on this).

A popular Chromium derivative is Brave, which may be worth trying.
 
garyc said:
One alternative is to install the Chromium browser, the open source basis for Edge and Chrome. It works well without the added corporate BS of those browsers. It is updated on Linux via the package manager, but I have heard that on Windows you need to do this manually (someone may be able to comment on this).

A popular Chromium derivative is Brave, which may be worth trying.
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I've share my experience a bit on this:
RedViking said:
Edge is not a bad browser and works really well on mobile. I use 365 for work and have 3 different profiles and a Personal one it worked so far the best managing and syncing different profiles. It also performs really well and managing resources. Chrome is like a needy grandmother, Firefox is a stepdad that drinks himself to sleep, Vivaldi has potential and Brave didn't work for me.
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