Anon pirates a game

Fuck, I remember when I was using Bing religiously unironicaly in the early 2010s during my Extremist Microsoft Loyalist phase.

Loyalism, sure... We all know what's the only reason to use Bing.
- I'm farming Microsoft Reward points with nonsensical searches for Overwatch coins. That's the only true reason to use Bing
- Good pork results.
Windows Phone's UI is a hill I will die on, it was really nice! I actively missed it for a while when switching.
- The only thing a bit shitty was the Settings. It was like a mile long, not sure if it had search or not. Was a long time ago.
  
  I bet there's a bunch of quality of life things I take for granted on android! I think you're right about the search :)

I love using Microsoft Edge on my GNU/Linux machine. I actually tried switching to Google as the search engine, but Microsoft Edge said it would be sad if I switched, so for the sake of Microsoft, I decided that I'd stay with Bing forever. I love giving my personal information to Copilot so that it can generate an interview application for me in my local fast food shops such as Mcdonalds, KFC, Burger King, etc. God bless Microsoft, best company ever!!! /s

I mean Microsoft will pay you to use them to search for porn
I’ve never even checked whether it’s available outside of windows. Is… is this actually possible?
- Edge actually runs great on Linux
  
  I think I have it installed on my Steam Deck
- Apparently, it is.
  
  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microsoft-edge-stable-bin
It's pretty good. Or atleast it was. I think with ai it'll become worse.

When my work colleague opens his Edge browser it always shows a page with "news" and ads. Bro... I always think of that IT crowd episode where the guy says "if this were a person, I'd shoot it in the face".

That's just the default new tab page on edge
- And I would take it as a bad sign when the people who are supposed to be the most tech savvy in the building can't be bothered to take 3 seconds to change that.

The bing homepage is so terrible

I had a friend that used microsoft edge and bing because they were the default and said that firefox is the worst and edge is much better

I did switch his default browser to firefox and search engine(on edge) to google(i wanted to switch to duckduckgo, but he hated it for no reason) while he was talking

Can confirm. Even though everyone shits on Chrome for its liberal use of your RAM, Firefox will never suspend any pages, making it unusable when you're multitasking.

That's an ongoing issue, too! Hasn't been fixed for maybe a year at this point. Gonna use edge the next time I reinstall windows.
- What are you doing that renders Firefox unusable? I've never had this issue in over a decade and I usually have 10+ tabs open.
  
  10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops. Firefox just dies. Chrome works, but Edge (thanks to its more agressive backgrounder) handles it fine. Reopens windows after reboot/shutdown better too. And that number goes up if I'm researching something - I've been upwards of 200 across 3 or 4 desktops in the past, easily.
  
  I have like 300 tabs open at any given time, I have never had this problem. I also recently downloaded an extension for tab groups and making it so tabs get suspended after 15 minutes of inactivity, but I'm not really sure that was necessary at all.
  
  I might have to give it a try. How is cross device sync and android support? I'll often send a group to the mobile...
  
  Not available on my android device, and I don't really use other computers, so I dunno. I think onetab is supported on both, but I haven't used that one too much.
  
  That's a bit of a deal breaker for me; I'm constantly swapping tabs from mobile to desktop... Oh well, I'll stick with Edge for now. Might do some more research myself anyway
  
  10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops.\
  
  Just ew... I will never understand this shit. Tabs aren't fucking bookmarks.
  
  And that's how you use things, which is fair enough. I prefer to have an organised, ready-to-go access to commonly required resources that I can view at a glance. I have things like e-mail, calendar, various (multiple) messaging and social media resources open at all times. I also have documents and reference materials that are regularly accessed open. Books and long-form reading materials stay open at the position I'm at. Further to that, if I'm researching something it may take time for my thoughts and desires to coalesce; during that time, the primary research tabs stay open in their own group. I may have somewhere between 3 - 6 things I'm researching at a time, with varying numbers of tabs. Then there's note-taking, coding, gaming and rewards sites. Sure, some I use as 'bookmarks', but not that many - most are things that are in long-term progress and use.
- At least in this context, handling a lot of tabs didnt matter because he had the startup option set to open the home page, not the previous pages and he doesnt use his pc enough to use this many tabs at once

DuckDuckGo is pretty nifty

I actually use Ecosia, which is just privacy Bing that plants trees and rebuilds ecosystems.

I keep clicking on that irritating Copilot AI button because Bing crammed it right in front where the image search tab usually is, and there's no way to hide/turn it off. Nice

You could probably block it using the element picker tool in ublock origin