Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh “bribery” backlash.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    Edge is a Chrome engine browser like dozens of others out there. Why not write a new browser engine to give customers a choice?

    they tried that with Edge 1.0

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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      21 hours ago

      Writing your own rendering engine that works exactly like chrome, has the same features and preferably no exploits is not something you or even a big company can whack out in a week or so. You need to support js, css, html, hardware acceleration, https, certificate checks, support notifications, location, camera and mic, video play and a whole lot of other features you take for granted. A modern browser is light years away from the first browsers that came out around 2000.