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Edge just not opening up our key app or even intranet correctly. Open sites in Chrome, no problem.

With Chrome MSI and (much better than Edge) group policy templates (plus testing it for months) the time has come and we’ve pushed Chrome out to everyone and set as the default browser.

So far so good.

Disappointed that Edge just didn’t work as needed but the show must go on.

Anyone else gone through the same thing?

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I use Edge daily (Windows 10 1607) without too much issues, but our in-house devs are usually fairly quick to fix internal sites to work as they should.

The only issues I face are sites that need yuk Java, then I use IE11

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We were rolled out Chrome before edge even came out because some of the sites we need didn’t work in IE. But at that same time we still had sites that only worked in IE (I’m looking at you skype meetings) such a PITA.

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The issues with out LOB app have been going on for a while but not being able to open the Intranet is a new one which was the last straw. All the issues were intermittent but annoying enough en masse.

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Welcome to the Chrome army!

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We have both Edge and Chrome, 80 % of the sites work with Edge the rest (Java and other legacy web apps work with Internet Explorer and Chrome)/

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I never even gave Edge the opportunity, I just knew it wasn’t going to work out :slight_smile:

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We currently have Chrome set as the default browser in our environment and my biggest gripe is that you can’t modify settings via the registry without enforcing the setting. User settings are stored in some type of JSON file which can make it difficult to update without affecting other settings.

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We’ve had too many issues with Edge with our access and accessing some external portals. Some of our users still use IE (which is still installed on Win 10 just needs searching for). Some use Firefox and a lot use Chrome. Personally I use Chrome which works well but does tend to be a little resource heavy, something to bear in mind if your users were in a terminal server environment.

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Our LOB and intranet sites don’t work with Chrome. They do work with Edge.

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We’re mainly IE, because some features on our sharepoint don’t work with Chrome very well. Edge is even worse, has a massive blank gap between the top of the page and the address bar. Chrome is installed on all the machines if people want to use it though.

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We primarily enforce IE or Edge but have some users who just have to use Chrome as this is the only way some of their day-to-day applications will work. I personally use Firefox and have had no issues with it. Our biggest concern is security in the browser. I know Chrome now has all these awesome GPOs that you can apply but I feel this will make our jobs harder as most users are vague about problems and will say “this website doesn’t work”. At least right now we know that they are using IE and can direct accordingly. If we roll out Chrome, we will need to determine which browser they are using. This may seem trivial but I don’t have a lot of faith in our users to be able to determine what they’re using. Also, our users do not like change, at all so adding a secondary browser may just be the death of me. However, during our next computer roll-out we are looking into moving to it or possibly adding it as an option of the users’ choice.

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We use a combination of IE and Firefox. Not a huge fan of Chrome on Windows - due to issues if you try to uninstall - however I use Chrome mostly for Spiceworks because it’s simply faster. But still not a fan. Quite honestly, I’m not a fan of Google anything…other than search engine.

The reason for multiple browsers comes down to compatibility. I’ve found sites/portals that won’t work in one browser, but will in another. Stupid. But a reality of my work life. My opinion is a site should display the same no matter what browser you use - but that’s not reality.

so there you have it.

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Yes, sadly. My day job is rolling out Chrome with W10. It is suspicious that Edge support is something that has to be chased after. (Enterprise support etc) Even more frustrating that innovation is lacking so the solution is to bolt on more software. Outside of work, I see non-IT installing whatever works. Adding more software to fix web browsing just doesn’t feel like fixing anything. Hopefully, as software attritions, we will start seeing web apps without so many proprietary dependencies. Until then, if the developer coded the web app to work with a specific browser, well, your only option is to use that browser.

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^^^^ THIS. EXACTLY THIS. It appears to me that some entities are in a pissing match with the browser market (or maybe vise versa). I used to be a single-browser man. Now, I have FOUR that I use… depending on the website/portal I am trying to access. Firefox is getting ridiculous at trying to protect us from ourselves… SOME sites or web apps STILL REQUIRE plugins, and until those sites/apps move to a different model, we have to have the plugin support. I liked Edge as it was super fast, but just try to login to eBay (go ahead, try it). Just insane…

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Your last name is the same as mine…so you’re alright! :slight_smile:

Totally agree. Out of control. Where any one single browser used to work on all sites, now does not…and a mix of browsers are needed. Totally ridiculous! Can’t even do something as simple as browsing webpages anymore.

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Yes and no but what else do you expect from a new browser created by Microsoft. As you work more in web apps you will find every site/app is different at my last place most of our apps where web apps and each developer recommends a different browser. At the time of me leaving we supported Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari.

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Chrome is so much better for enterprise than Edge is. Edge is barely manageable.