{"id":6066,"date":"2022-03-23T22:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2022-03-23T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T03:58:59","slug":"microsoft-edge-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/2022\/03\/23\/microsoft-edge-bloat\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge Bloat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MicrosoftEdge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6068\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MicrosoftEdge.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MicrosoftEdge-500x176.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer was one of the biggest running tech jokes. Slow, insecure and all kinds of problematic stories were synonymous with the browser. Then Microsoft scored a hit with a switch a new browser that later came to use the Chromium based Blink engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many users found it faster and better and somewhat shockingly less resource heavy. That advantage is being eroded by various so called features and extensions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among these features were shopping integrations that allowed users to find coupons and discounts and in some jurisdiction even offering buy now pay later features in the default download of a browser. Gaming features or a so called gaming panel is coming as well, with little regard to how many percentage of any browsers users would care about any, even simple, simple games being part of a browser. Other features like Collections are perhaps useful for those who collect info and would use syncing the said info across Microsoft&#8217;s ecosystem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest bloat is a Skype Meet Now extension. Skype has a poor track record in terms of reliability and perhaps just as importantly being resource heavy on its own. Launching it from and using it within a browser can and will add do this resource hog. Skype is also notorious for new versions breaking things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a desktop market share of nearly 10% Edge has done better than many thought it would but it may plateau at these levels that it has achieved if it does not focus on speed and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer was one of the biggest running tech jokes. Slow, insecure and all kinds of problematic stories were synonymous with the browser. Then Microsoft scored a hit with a switch a new browser that later came to use the Chromium based Blink engine. Many users found it faster and better and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[7,698,195],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-article","tag-browser","tag-edge","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}