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Old times: Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.
Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer.
But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]?
Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. 
I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Grabs a bag of popcorn...
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Too early, this was just the trailer. 
Save some for the actual picture.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I have plenty of popcorn, and there are plenty of haters around.
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Clearly, you are a Google Chrome user!
Like me. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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70% IE, 30% Chrome. 0% fox.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow).
I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow. Like adding ads.
I mean, come on, they couldn't even figure out that people might find the working name "Spartan" while properly meaning "sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere" more to mean "rigorously simple" as a negative, as in one of Webster's definition "marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort."
Frugal is good. Simple and avoidance of comfort in not so good for a browser's name.
Marc
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Your first line is totally correct, that is what they did to Internet Explorer and most of their products. As far as ads are concerned, I have not yet seen a single ad (I am not a Microsoft Employee, Partner or affiliated to them in any way ) while using any product. I am not sure of what would happen when Windows would be releases publicly.
Indeed, but they would soon change it to Edge.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow.
That does seem to be a recurring MS theme over the last five years or so...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Five years, FIVE years?
Let's just agree on recurring shall we.
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They do repeat mistakes, don't they?
But I can't think of anything in the last 5 years that had been meet with general approval: even VS was SHOUTY and dark (and still didn't fix bugs that were reported on VS2005)
I'm really hoping they have got it right with Win 10 - I think they'll get slaughtered if they haven't.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You mean they didn't just base the name off of the project that produced Halo's Master Chief? I just figured they were keeping it all in a Halo theme since they have Cortana.
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You call that a browser?
This[^] is a browser
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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My thoughts, exactly! 
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Pssh, this[^] is the only thing I use. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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You and your fancy pictures. Lynx is superior.
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How much did you spent on Edge?
I booted up my Windows 10 VM and decided to use Edge for a week...I gave up after 3 days...
It maybe low in memory (it's a huge maybe as Chrome has truly separated processes behind each and every tab, so one fail and others keep going, where fail of one the tabs in Edge will block others until the shared libraries restored from crash...) but it is still has the same rendering and JavaScript engine as IE has and for that a very clumsy tool for development...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I gave up on it because it forces you to use Bing, it has no home button, and it shows "suggested" sites in new tabs, read "paid advertisements."
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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tbh, Chrome & it's failing tabs.. Chrome just freezes my browser & system every x-minutes for a second or two/three.. They can claim what they want, but Chrome is far from perfect, and it's a resource hog.. I stick for Firefox;
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Fair enough, if Spartan is significantly better than Firefox or Chrome (at least for your specific purposes) then yes, why wouldn't you switch to it? But that's a big "if".
I don't really understand why you seem so desperate to abandon Firefox and Chrome. Most power users will already have the FF or Chrome extensions they want and also use their respective session sync services across machines and devices, and won't suddenly switch to Spartan just because it uses less memory and happens to be the default browser with Windows.
If Spartan has a vibrant extension ecosystem, and a session sync service, and an Android/iOS client, and looks nice, and has a decent interface, then I will consider switching to it. But somehow I doubt all that will be the case.
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Nope, no matter how long I use Spartan. I would always be a Google Chrome fan and a loyal user. It is just this resolution problem* that is forcing me to use Windows 10. As far as your doubts are concerned, that is still the same. Edge is after all Internet Explorer, with a different UI only. Nothing has been updated, I have not yet found anything, from a developers perspective, to be new. However, from a user's (reader's) perspective there are a few changes. So, it depends on who you are (Developer or user) in order to switch your user-agent!
After this, my only wish is that in Windows 10, the pixels are not rendered as per screen resolution. It is just a pain, trust me.
*My new laptop has 1920x1080 resolution and thus Google Chrome shows very small fonts. Where as this old laptop of mine has perfect font size and rendering resolution so, I am using Spartan.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Do you remember when IE3.0 became the first fully rendered graphical browser to give full capability to browse completely with only a keyboard? Those were the days.
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You can still browser the internet using only a keyboard. I do.
Sadly enough, it is Google Chrome that I am using right now.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Sure, but IE3 was the first to do it, when Microsoft was actually working hard to get the user base. Mosaic and Netscape both botched up until then and left lots of stuff unnavigable.
This weekend, a friend couldn't find the mouse for his HTPC, so I was just happily doing all of the surfing with the keyboard (which didn't have a context menu key, so shift+F10 a lot). Then I hit the requisite Bonjour(Zconf) install and had to actually plug in his notebook's mouse. Sad day.
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Totally accurate words, but not just Microsoft every company tries their best to get a user base, once they get a few users. They convert them self into some laboratory and keep testing and experimenting on their user base.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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