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  #1339017 8-Jul-2015 08:04
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hmm my version says Version 43.0.2357.130 m



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  #1339044 8-Jul-2015 08:25
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joker97: hmm my version says Version 43.0.2357.130 m


The latest 'stable' is  42.0.2357.132 m

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  #1339072 8-Jul-2015 09:00
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Why does everyone always act like there are only four browsers in the world? Opera used to be vastly superior to anything else until they ruined it. I tried Chrome and a lot of others and finally found Slimjet, which is built on the Chrome engine but comes closer to the old Opera than anything else out there. Highly configurable, can disable the Google snooping functions, works well overall, neat extras like the ability to save pages as pdf files. I miss Opera a lot less now.





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  #1339080 8-Jul-2015 09:19
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Rikkitic: Why does everyone always act like there are only four browsers in the world? Opera used to be vastly superior to anything else until they ruined it. I tried Chrome and a lot of others and finally found Slimjet, which is built on the Chrome engine but comes closer to the old Opera than anything else out there. Highly configurable, can disable the Google snooping functions, works well overall, neat extras like the ability to save pages as pdf files. I miss Opera a lot less now.



I have used most versions Opera. I try new versions, but personally I do not like it. It is horses for courses, which ever one prefers use it, there is no right or wrong.

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  #1339095 8-Jul-2015 09:40
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i've been trialling win10 on a spare laptop.... latest update and cannot run the edge browser -- i get 'edge has expired, get it from the online store'. 

Doesn't that defeat the purpose for testing, because the online store does not actually have edge available.


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surfisup1000: i've been trialling win10 on a spare laptop.... latest update and cannot run the edge browser -- i get 'edge has expired, get it from the online store'. 

Doesn't that defeat the purpose for testing, because the online store does not actually have edge available.



I am running 10162 on my PC and Edge is running the best it has during all the builds I have tried. Have you filed a bug report?

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  #1339133 8-Jul-2015 10:43
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Edge performs well but I have to wait for the finished product as I won't use any browser that doesn't have ad blocking capability and a favourites bar that allows me to arrange the links in the order I want, rather than alphabetic.

 
 
 

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  #1339139 8-Jul-2015 10:52
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linw: Edge performs well but I have to wait for the finished product as I won't use any browser that doesn't have ad blocking capability and a favourites bar that allows me to arrange the links in the order I want, rather than alphabetic.


The Edge Favourites bar can be arranged as you like





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  #1339142 8-Jul-2015 10:59
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what i would like is a browser that allows me to put all the junk on ONE horizontal bar so i can maximise my viewing space, instead of taking 3 rows

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  #1339144 8-Jul-2015 11:03
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joker97: what i would like is a browser that allows me to put all the junk on ONE horizontal bar so i can maximise my viewing space, instead of taking 3 rows


You can with Edge if you use the Hamburger menu for Favourites

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  #1339145 8-Jul-2015 11:05
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cool. when can i try it on win 8.1

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  #1339153 8-Jul-2015 11:07
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joker97: cool. when can i try it on win 8.1


I am not sure if or when MSFT will release it for older OS's given their target to for Win 10 migrations.

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its not coming to 8.1 ever

Windows 10 is a free upgrade for Windows 8.1 users

Edge is in Windows 10

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  #1339169 8-Jul-2015 11:31
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joker97: I'll list what is extra:

Toolbars
- Adobe PDF Reader
- MS XML DOM Document (no idea what that is)
- Shockwave Flash Object

Searchbars
NONE

Search Provider
- Google only

Accelerators
- none

Tracking Protection
- none


ok so i disabled the XML DOM thing and the shockwave and am back GZing on IE ... old habits die hard

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  #1339173 8-Jul-2015 11:36
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Hopefully more of Microsoft's own sites will start recognising Edge (and indeed, even IE11 in some cases) as a "current" browser version fairly soonish.

If Silverlight isn't supported by Edge, which appears to be the case, then that removes the ability to use it with the Application Catalog for SCCM. Hopefully this is resolved one way or another soon. I see nothing in the interface that justifies the need of Silverlight so hopefully an update to SCCM will redo it in HTML5 or something Edge compatible.





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