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Interesting to see that while Chrome is definitely king, both Edge and IE combined outscore Firefox usage on Windows 10.
To my own surprise, I use Edge a lot since I moved to Windows 10. At first, I thought that I'll be just continuing to use IE because everybody was whining about the lack of features and incompleteness of Edge, but actually the slim and spartan (pun intended) nature of the browser is a great plus to me. It's clean and simple and blazingly fast, and runs pretty smooth without many issues. It lacks an ad blocker right now, but that's not really a big deal because with a customized hosts file, you barely see any ads in Edge as well (sometimes I think the hosts file solution works even better than an ad blocker because it seems to me that if some sites detect you are using ad blocking software, they will push even more crap on you via hard to block CSS inline stuff etc.) Since I was never a friend of extensions in browsers because they just open up another target vector for malicious software, they're not really missing for me. I never understood what's so great about Chrome and extensions, but maybe that's because I'm old school and happy with having Favorites for important sites and don't use any of the social network crap etc. or have a million accounts for which I need a million different passwords to manage.
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It is a great browser, however I just hate that input box for URL address doesn't appear when edge is first opened. It is extremely annoying to have to click to get the input. Not sure what was the UX team thinking.
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Alexander Siniouguine wrote: input box for URL address doesn't appear when edge is first opened
Yeah, I like Edge also, but it is annoying and you can hardly tell if you're typing the URL in or what is going on. Quite a confusing interface.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: I never understood what's so great about Chrome
F12 Dev Tools.......
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Got that on IE and Edge too.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You don't say.........but they are pretty crap implementations (haven't dug deep into Edge yet, however)
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Not in my experience, they've got everything that Chrome has.
But hey, go ahead and ignore reality and spout stuff based on your biases rather than experience and reality.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I have merely spouted my opinion based on my experience of using IE and Chrome dev tools, I did make it clear I haven't dug deep into Edge yet.
Maybe have to one day (if I ever find the time) update my article to reflect changes in newer versions: Beginner Guide to Page and Script Debugging with Chrome[^]
How can I be ignoring reality? How can it be bias? It is purely MY opinion.....
sheesh.....must have touched a nerve somewhere......
Have a nice day now.
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Sorry, I guess I'm getting sick of people in general being over-influenced by over-hyped opinions of others and also giving negative past experiences too much weight and not giving new versions a real chance.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No worries........go have another coffee.....I'm going to my bed now, see what's on the telly out here tonight (other than a layer of dust) 
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I hate to say it, but I think Edge's tools are possibly better (at least in some ways) than Chrome. Chrome's good, but I find Edge's emulation nicer than Chrome (through Chrome seems to have upped the ante a little in that department, too).
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'll have to take it for a spin next time i'm digging into something and see how it gets on.
I had a brief look at it last night, but regardless of functionality, it isn't very pretty.....imho
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Browser preference is purely subjective. Use whatever works best for you.
Kevin
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The "problem" comes when you're a web dev and want/need to support multiple browsers with bugs... **sigh**
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: The "problem" comes when you're a web dev and want/need to support multiple browsers with bugs... **sigh**
Isn't that what ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) is for?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If I were a drinking man, then I suppose so. But then I suppose not much would get done either... 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's true, but I've got the impression that the subjective part on this is very biased and still affected by a lot of prejudice from the past. I claim that a lot of people only use Chrome because it's just was everybody else around is using and claiming is better (the same goes for Firefox some years ago, with the difference that Firefox undoubtedly was better at the time) no matter how much that's based on actual facts. On the other hand, most of those people never thought about giving IE a second chance, no matter how much it improved after IE9. Preference is purely subjective, but especially in this case it's not free from outside influences.
Now maybe Edge's problem could be as simple as its icon. It clearly reminds of IE, and people recognize the blue E as being IE and not a completely different browser. Hence they ignore it.
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Well, my personal preference is Firefox. For me it has superior usability and features. The subjective part is the weight others attach to what I deem to be usability and features. I use quite a few extensions. The extensions ecosystem and capabilities are greater in Firefox. But many don't care for extensions, so then other considerations may come into play. That's why I say it's subjective.
I do typically have four browsers installed on my home and work desktops. The other three being IE, Chrome and Firefox. So I like to think I'm aware of what other browsers have to offer but, thus far, I still prefer Firefox.
At work I mostly debug from Visual Studio into Chrome, mainly because that's what most people use. It's dev tools are also pretty good (although I rarely need to use them in current dev project). But I mostly browse with Firefox.
Kevin
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Research shows that a number of top-level domains are almost exclusively used for malicious purposes. I hear those .com sites have a lot of nasty stuff in them
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Yeah and you should see em!
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I'm shocked, shocked, to discover the most recent round of .com killers have been as big a failure as every other round before them were. .biz or .info anyone? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The disconnect between software developers and IT security teams has lead to widespread application vulnerabilities. Yes, it's your fault that Bob in accounting clicked that link in the email from "The Bank"
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Blame PMs, blame Agile!
I have seen a few problems that lead to a disconnect between teams that lead to vulurabilities. Firstly, our security team seems to be focused only on the network and have no idea about user authentication. For example, on a legacy Intranet site we have, it is authenticates users with Windows Authentication. Well he didn't know what that was and I said, it is just a domain account. Also, security, infrastructure, database, and application groups don't design an architecture together to thwart attacks; they tend to stay in their little silos. And lastly, I'm going to blame Agile. Agile ignores the architecture, database, and security design disciplines that more iterative processes stress and instead pushes forward before a strong architecture is designed and ready to develop on.
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If it's all Agile's fault, how come so many issues come from older software (OpenSSL springs to mind) created before Agile took off).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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