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0 pointspartycoder7y ago0 comments

It was a bad decision to make the logo similar to Internet Explorer, that alone is enough reason to not use it.

They can change the tech as much as they want. They can hire armies of engineers and make the browser 1000% faster than Chrome... but if they reuse the stupid logo it will fail again, and again, and again until they give up and forget that logo ever existed.

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dmihal7y ago

Unfortunately, for some people that "E" means "internet"

sbuk7y ago

In the same unfortunate manner that the chrome icon means the same to more? Not saying that Chrome is a bad browser, but we railed against the IE monoculture, we railed against Webkit when Blink was released. Now we have a Google run monoculture.

Piskvorrr7y ago

Nah, that was an obvious and clumsy sleight-of-hand "it's not IE, nononono, don't look there, look here, hey presto! A completely new browser which is not at all a reskin of IE!"

int_19h7y ago

You do know that it's not a reskin of IE, and the rendering engine is different?

mehrdadn7y ago

To be honest I thought changing the logo made sense since I didn't really believe they built an entirely new browser. Despite all the press about the core being somehow different I figured it must still share a lot of code (and I wasn't the only one [1])...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-edge-hit-by-many-of-...

coldtea7y ago

Perhaps not everybody is as shallow -- or emotionally invested in the logo

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