Open Edge? ewwwww.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
winget? ewwww.
Open up the GUI package manager, look for Firefox, type in my password.
If you don’t like command line interfaces, you could try UniGetUI (formerly WingetUI) which is an open source aggregator for multiple package management ecosystems.
Last I checked it included winget, chocolatey, direct-from-GitHub releases, and a lot of developer-oriented solutions like NuGet, pip, pyenv, nvm, npm, rvm, and the like.
If you must use Windows for something, at least you can avoid using Microsoft Store and Edge. And if you have the inclination, you can use that list of installations with an AME Wizard playbook to rapidly provision a Windows machine (virtual or otherwise) which makes the all but inevitable “format-and-reinstall” task painless.
TLDR: you can just use it as an automated installer, kind of like Ninite from back in the day, but it can do a lot more than that. Actually kind of jealous this sort of universal aggregator doesn’t exist in unix systems yet.
I use Firefox but isn't edge considered a solid lightweight browser now?
Imo it was for while after it was released, and even for awhile after it switched to chromium, but it got bloated with extra features really quick over the last few years. Weird sidebars, copilot, coupon-enterring stuff, etc. Granted a lot of that can be disabled, but still, the only new feature I like so far is tab groups. I try to use Firefox as much as I can but use edge from time to time when the website I need insists on a chromium browser or has issues in Firefox.
Yes, hating on edge is just a meme. I use Firefox as my primary, but I'll use edge as a backup before chrome.
It's definitively not lightweight.
It should be as solid as a slightly old version of Chrome.
No.
I know this is the meme and shitpost place but some lurker might have some insight.
I actually still use IE from time to time when Im trying to watch a movie or whatnot. I have 2 screens and 2 sets of speakers, call them left and right. When streaming I treat the left like a TV. with its own audio direction
but to do this I have to run it through a different browser, and then I have the volume mixer set to output Internet explorer audio through the secondary speakers.
someone know a way of doing it on a tab basis. maybe? In chrome
We don't use that one around here anymore.
wgetandcurlis what we use to download a browser.Pretty much, and personally it would be straight to Firefox or Zen
