Yes, I haven’t used IE in years but on this single point I agree with you. That’s what malware does too – it hijacks you and it doesn’t go away until you kill its processes and then run an antivirus scan.
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I swear Edge and Windows 10 altogether is starting to act like a malware – as soon as you log in for the first time on a fresh Windows 10 install, Edge starts bombarding you from the start – it opens some window in the bottom right, it runs from start, it literally hijacks you from the start and if you want to ignore it, you have to kill its many processes from Task Manager. If cookie dialogs are jumping at me right from the New Tab page… what comes after that? I’m too scared to find out. What I recently started hating the most about Edge is that even the New Tab page has a cookie dialog box and it greys out everything else. I don’t know what will I do after they remove it from the system, but I won’t be using their Edge, because it’s crap, unless they somehow integrate it inside Windows 10 so that I can’t uninstall it. Now You: do you still use Internet Explorer?Ĭurrently I have Chromium Edge uninstalled and I use my browser of choice + IE when I want to see how a website works without all my content blocking, because it’s more work turning them off than opening IE. Microsoft published a FAQ on its Tech Community website that answers frequent questions and contains lots of links to support articles and information. Microsoft won't make any exceptions to the Jdeadline. A special email adddress,, is available, to report compatibility issues when opening sites in IE Mode that are designed for Internet Explorer. Microsoft states that apps that are developed for IE should work in IE Mode in Microsoft Edge. Better browser security with new features and better protections built-into the browser.Īdministrators may set up IE Mode in Microsoft Edge using this official guide to allow users to open sites using Internet Explorer.Streamlined productivity as users and organizations can focus on a single browser instead of having to juggle between two browsers.Microsoft Edge offers improved web compatibility, as it is based on Chromium, the same core that Google Chrome and other browsers such as Vivaldi, Brave or Opera are based on.The decision to retire Internet explorer was based on the following reasons, according to Microsoft: