[lostcolony]

Yeah, but I'm willing to bet normal everyday users don't use terms like "browser experience" either.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that anyone who understands the concept of different browsers (rather than referring to whatever standard browser they have as "the internet"), uses Edge primarily to download Chrome or Firefox.

[MBCook]

I’ve used edge. It’s fine.

If MS had lots of people complaining about sites that didn’t work or said ‘Edge not supported’ to people who went there and that was because the site needed IndexDB I’m sure they would have added it. It clearly isn’t a huge issue for them.

I can see people saying ‘If I use Edge my phone doesn’t sync bookmarks and stuff like Chrome so I use Chrome.’

I don’t think saying things like ‘people only use it to download Chrome’ is helpful. It’s not IE 7. It’s a perfectly fine browser.

[lostcolony]

Yes, it was partially tongue in cheek.

That said, most of those who understand there are multiple browsers likely do so due to a time when, yes, IE was -terrible-...and so all their saved stuff, preferred plugins, etc, are in Firefox or Chrome. So their first act on getting a new computer is to reinstall and sync that stuff. Not "give that new Microsoft browser a spin".

[DonHopkins]

There was actually a time in history when Internet Explorer was arguably the best browser on the Mac!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac

[ConceptJunkie]

There was a time when IE was arguably the best browser for Windows. Unfortunately, this time was about 20 years ago.

[abiox]

it still lags behind in supporting various things. i had hoped edge would show a commitment to features and standards, but alas.

[MBCook]

Such as?

I mean are they real problems or are they the bleeding edge stuff people are always mad Safari doesn’t have yet?

[frou_dh]

After a Win10 user does that, they will have not one but two unused browsers lingering on their PC (both IE11 and Edge). I name this ship Bloaty McBloatface.