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for a long time Microsoft's veneer excuse me venerable Internet Explorer

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was a lot like the cheeseburger on the menu at your local Chinese joint it was

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always just kind of there even though nearly everyone opted for Chrome Firefox

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or kungpow chicken instead and could you really blame them most popular

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alternatives to iie offered faster performance better compatibility and

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security and more useful features that left Internet Explorer in the dust so

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after seeing ie's usage share drw po off

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for 12 straight years Microsoft decided

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it was time to abandon ship and build an entirely different browser called Edge

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and even though the edge logo is suspiciously similar to that Infamous e

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Microsoft has promised a faster browsing experience behind the scenes that plays

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nicely with modern websites but talk is cheap how is Microsoft going to deliver

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on its assurances of a better browser well similarly to how a game uses a

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rendering engine to make pretty pictures appear on your screen browsers use their

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own rendering engines to show you coherent web pages instead of a wall of

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garbled junk and Microsoft has developed an allnew engine called Edge HTML which

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was originally developed from ie's Trident engine but has the old IE code

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removed which Microsoft says will make modern web pages load faster and more

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accurately and speaking of making things faster Edge also no longer supports

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ActiveX or brows helper objects those old Internet Explorer plugins that were

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notorious for being super susceptible to malware that could slow down your PC

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direct you to malicious websites or worse but not all the improvements are

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just behind the scenes stuff Edge also

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has a new user interface that promises to be less clunky than IE for starters

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Microsoft has finally decided it's not a

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good idea to crowd together browser tabs and the address bar on the same line and

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has reserved the entire top of the screen for tabs like other modern

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browsers Edge has also moved to a single menu scheme for changing options instead

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of the messy internet options box that has been with us since freaking Windows

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95 and I guess well that's all finding Dandy Linus hold on a second it sounds

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like Edge is purely playing catchup with the other browsers here does it actually

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offer anything that I won't get with chrome or Firefox as a matter of fact

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yes Edge is trying to set itself apart

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from its competitors by offering additional functionality without the

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need for thirdparty browser extensions something that let's face it most

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non-power users are not really using so

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namely you can annotate and mark up web pages just by clicking a button at the

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top of the screen then you can share them or save them to one note pretty

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cool stuff and additionally Edge features integration with Cortana the

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new Windows 10 personal assistant making it easy to quickly look up information

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about any topic you see on a web page uh use voice controls or even get things

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like driving directions or dinner reservations but despite all these

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improvements is Edge really ready for Prime Time although the new rendering

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engine should certainly deliver better performance our tests have shown it

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still legs behind Chrome and Firefox in a number of benchmarks and it still

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isn't as compliant with newer web standards like HTML 5 as the competition

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and although a simpler UI will be a welcome change for many power users may

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find themselves frustrated at the rather lean options in the settings menu I mean

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even something as simple as the default download directory cannot be changed

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without a registry tweak so let us know in the comments can you live without

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right click paste and go and give Edge a chance as long as it means IE is finally

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going the way of clippy or are you just going to stick with the other thirdparty

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browsers that you already know and love

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speaking of sticking with things we know and love we certainly talk about fresh

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books a lot on this channel and we're going to do it again today it's designed

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for freelance workers or small businesses and it makes invoicing

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getting paid and tracking your expenses easier with a simple online tool so all

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those little details about you know the hours worked on this job or your cash

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flow or other little accounting stuff like that that normally you'd have to

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get home at the end of a long day and sit at your computer and work on no no

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that's all on your mobile device and it has a bunch of other great features as

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as well so you can show the full history of invoices you can check and see if

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your client has viewed the invoice and they can even pay you via credit card

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through fresh books so if you're Your Own Boss you should be using stuff that

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makes you feel like a boss check it out now at freshbooks.com tequ and don't

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forget to enter Techquickie in the how did You Hear About Us section so thanks

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for watching guys if you liked this video go ahead click that like button if

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actually have our full video over on the lineus tech tips Channel either out

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already or coming very soon where we uh go through the in-depth performance

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benchmarks that we ran on edge before shooting this video so check that out