Microsoft Adding Bugs to Chrome, Calling It 'Edge'

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2023

Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.

Illinois State Government: Don’t Use Microsoft Edge Due to Bugs Which Aren’t Even in Chrome.

After telling everyone to use Microsoft Edge to access government Web sites and fill out PDFs, the Illinois State Government now admits that Microsoft Edge is buggier than even Google Chrome and advises users to switch to something else.

Awkward.

Users shouldn’t use Chrome either, but Microsoft Edge is some next level shit. Basically everything wrong with Chrome, plus a third coat of spyware and a sewer of ads.

I mostly use Brave. █

There is currently a bug affecting users running a newer version of Microsoft’s Edge Browser. This bug forces users to log into Illinois workNet when they click on a link to view any Office document file (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). Until this issue has been resolved by Microsoft, affected users can download the file via an alternate browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.) or do the following to download via Edge.

1. Right click on the file.
2. Click “Save link as”
3. Download the file to your computer.

This will allow you to view the file without logging into Illinois workNet.

– Illinois WorkNet, a division of the Illinois Department of Employment Security