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  • Manjaro Linux Cinnamon Choose Vivaldi Over Firefox As Default Browser

    Manjaro Linux Cinnamon Choose Vivaldi Over Firefox As Default Browser

    Manjaro Linux Cinnamon has chosen Vivaldi as its default browser, ousting Firefox.

    Vivaldi is a popular web browser based on the Chromium rendering engine, the same engine that powers Google’s Chrome. The company was co-founded by the co-founder and former CEO of Opera software, Jon von Tetzchner, and its browser is designed to appeal to power users, as well as Opera users.

    Manjaro is one of the more popular Linux distros, and is based on the Arch distro. One of Manjaro’s strengths is its focus on ease-of-use, making it a good choice for those just breaking into the Linux world. Manjaro Cinnamon is a version of the distro that ships with the Cinnamon desktop environment as the default, instead of Gnome, KDE or Xfce.

    According to Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner, Manjaro’s co-CEO made the decision to include Vivaldi as the default.

    To give Vivaldi more of the attention it deserves, I decided to include it as the default browser in our popular Cinnamon Community Edition. With its remarkable browsing speed, exceptional customizability and especially the way it values user privacy, Vivaldi for me is a perfect match for Manjaro Linux.

    The announcement is good news for Vivaldi, and another setback for Firefox.

  • Microsoft Edge the ‘Best Performing Browser on Windows 10’

    Microsoft Edge the ‘Best Performing Browser on Windows 10’

    On the heels of announcing Internet Explorer’s imminent demise, Microsoft says Edge is the “best performing browser on Windows 10.”

    Microsoft announced Internet Explorer’s end of life date a week ago, and now the company is reassuring users the future is bright for its replacement, Microsoft Edge. In fact, thanks to its Chromium foundation and Microsoft’s hard work, the browser is now the browser to beat on Windows 10.

    There are two features contributing to Edge’s increased performance: Startup boost and sleeping tabs.

    Startup boost offloads core Microsoft Edge processes to the background, enabling the browser to start faster. 

    Microsoft Edge Sleeping Tabs – Credit Microsoft

    Sleeping tabs is designed to boost performance when using multiple tabs. When switching to a new tab, the feature will immediately put any ads in background tabs to sleep, thereby conserving energy and boosting the overall performance of Edge and Windows.

    Users will see these benefits with the release of version 91 later this week.

  • Good Riddance: Microsoft Announces Internet Explorer’s End of Life

    Good Riddance: Microsoft Announces Internet Explorer’s End of Life

    It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft has officially announced Internet Explorer’s impending end of life.

    Internet Explorer — not so affectionately known as “Internet Exploder” by critics — was once the most popular web browser in use. In the early days of the web, Netscape was the primary option. Microsoft realized the threat Netscape posed and started aggressively pushing Internet Explorer, bundling it with Windows in ways that helped it gain popularity, and land Microsoft in an antitrust trial.

    Unfortunately, being the most popular did not equate to being the best. Throughout its life, Internet Explorer had a horrible reputation for playing fast and lose with internet standards. Many a web designer rued the day Microsoft decided to enter the web browser fray.

    Microsoft has now announced Internet Explorer’s end of life, with Microsoft Edge being the company’s successor. Unlike Internet Explorer, Edge is based on the open source Chromium rendering engine, making it far more standards-compliant than Internet Explorer could ever hope to be.

    Microsoft’s Sean Lyndersay made the announcement via a blog post.

    Over the last year, you may have noticed our movement away from Internet Explorer (“IE”) support, such as an announcement of the end of IE support by Microsoft 365 online services. Today, we are at the next stage of that journey: we are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge. Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications. Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode (“IE mode”) built in, so you can access those legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications straight from Microsoft Edge. With Microsoft Edge capable of assuming this responsibility and more, the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.

    There are some applications that have a certain nostalgia, even if they no longer serve a purpose, and are missed on that basis alone. In Internet Explorer’s case, it will be missed about as much as a bad toothache.