Thanks to Microsoft for removing the sidebar. It actually led me to discover a better browser called Vivaldi. Microsoft is a master at creating useless features; so, once they saw the sidebar was actually being used a lot, they removed it :)) If Microsoft actually used its brain, its browser would be miles ahead of Google by now, but I guess the fate of Internet Explorer still hasn't served as a lesson for them.

WTF?? When I opened it, I thought some malware had taken over my system. Those of a certain age might remember Bonzi Buddy which was a "helper app" which basically took over your system and popped up random "helpful" sh*t whenever you tried to do something. Sort of like Clippy on crack. It was almost impossible to uninstall and left traces of itself all through the computer.

Edge these days reminds me of that. Random ads, some sort of sidebar that keeps popping up, tracking, data harvesting, I can't believe it. I just spent 15 minutes going through all the setup menus and disabling dozens of "features" that benefit Microsoft and its partners rather than myself. I mean dozens of these things. Basically I turned EVERYTHING off.

What happened to Edge? A few years ago it was considered MS's best browser in decades. Is this the trend or will MS change its ways?

In case one can't read my epic/godawful paint writing (it was painful writing this with the mouse!); "Disabled the bookmarks bar but it's all white no contrast whatsoever! New Theme? Also, the bookmark icon is different, not blue! Like it should be! The old Edge gray theme is gone too!"

Yeah, did something change? Everything's all white now and the gray contrast theme is gone too, and the new one isn't the same. :(

What else can I say? please do not remove the edge sidebar

What a shit UI change, soo much padding and space just a waste of space, in the Folder section. The whole Ui a trash.

Microsoft really???

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What's with this space? Looks awful. Can this be changed?

Lately, I've been noticing that Microsoft Edge feels very heavy, it has too many things that are unnecessary for most users...

So I wonder, is it still worth using or should I go back to Chrome?

It is worth mentioning that I am also a Brave user.

Using the repo wiki, i get this or another one with a verification check box. they both want me to enable notifications. how do i stop this? I dont download sketchy stuff and i dont ever click the enable notifications thing. i know about all the popup scams and all the powershell verification scams. i dont recall ever doing anything that would do this to me

edit: for further clarification, my browser experience is limited almost ENTIRELY to informational searches using wikis/google, and also using trusted websites like google, reddit, netflix, etc

I use Win 10 and many times open the Edge for the news (they aren't actually bad, as a news outlet). But whenever i try to take part of a discussion and comment on something, their fucking censorship shit software blocks me and display message "this comment doesn't follow our guidelines", or, worse yet, "something went wrong, please try again".

There is NO EXPLANATION at all to the either message. What does it mean, "doesn't follow our guidelines"? I didn't use swear words, didn't use racial epithets, didn't use sexist statements, or anti-gay/lesbian, or even a straightforward "idiot".

What drives me nuts is that there's no place to send an email quoting my message and asking "what's actually wrong with it?".

I'm just venting here, but I seriously consider uninstalling Edge. I don't need that aggro and some fucking programmer treating me like a school kid.

might be memory leak from youtube(just keeps on increasing), been happening for a long while now. any fixes?

or not cleanly if I have to?

I uninstalled a previous version through powershell, and I don't appreciate garbage I already threw away to come back and being shoved in my face.

Ever since Microsoft forced rounded corners in Edge, I can’t use the browser anymore. It looks absurdly ugly, and the wasted screen space bothers me a lot.

I’m migrating to another browser. I thought about Chrome, but I’d like to hear your opinion on good browsers to switch to.

Also, what’s the best way to export favorites, passwords, etc. to the new browser? I’d like something somewhat automatic.

Goodbye Edge, until next time.

but when i choose google, it seems not to change it, anyone know what is it?

upd: why am i getting downvoted for asking for help bro 😭, also it doesn't change to yandex anymore, hooray!

I mean, why focus on developing unnecessary functionalities instead of prioritizing performance improvements?

the new sidebar button adds discomfort to the my experience and unnecessarily overlaps with the existing bookmark
Moreover, it doesn't even offer an option to hide the button we have to resort to using command prompt tools provided by the community

Seriously, this needs to stop

Every time Edge updates, it resets several of my settings. No, I don't want to save by shopping with Microsoft Edge. No, I don't want travel recommendations from Microsoft Edge -- I don't travel. Why they think they know better than me is beyond logic. I'll keep it around as the only feature I really like is installing web pages as apps. Chrome does that too, I know, but I have an even worse aversion to Chrome. Yeah, vertical tabs are cool, and the Collections feature is good too but not enough to keep me around. I think Vivaldi has some of those features, so I might give it a go.

Sorry, Edge, you're just too pushy and selfish.