{"id":21193,"date":"2020-06-06T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2585126"},"modified":"2020-06-06T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T23:10:00","slug":"google-is-really-annoyed-youre-using-microsoft-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/06\/google-is-really-annoyed-youre-using-microsoft-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is really annoyed you\u2019re using Microsoft Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Microsoft’s new browser emerged, it’s made Google a little uncomfortable. So Google has created a new, slightly irritable message for those who log on to their Gmail accounts via Edge on a new device.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google<\/a>, from its very beginning, thought it was so clever. It’s never really stopped thinking that.<\/p>\n

And when it discovers competition — from what it deems an unworthy source — Google can become irritable.<\/p>\n

Here is but the latest chapter, for example, in its riveting browser scuffle with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, Google created Chrome, a browser that actually seemed to work for fundamental things like video and opening more than one tab at the same time.<\/p>\n

Humans, flocking fools that they are, immediately forsook their old browsers. Why, Chrome’s market share is now said to be almost 50 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But then here came Microsoft <\/a>with something oddly competent. Yes, it was still called Edge. But this Edge<\/a> was smooth and sprightly. Which could be something to do with the fact that it’s based on Google’s Chromium platform.<\/p>\n

Google seemed miffed that Microsoft had created a functioning browser. It told users Edge isn’t secure<\/a>. Which is odd coming from a company that’s just been sued for allegedly tracking users’ private browsing activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft — the new soft, but sturdy version — intimated that apps from Google’s Chrome Web store mess up Edge’s inner workings.<\/p>\n

But then Redmond realized it didn’t have so many fine Edge extensions, so it started to recommend Chrome Web Store extensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A truce. Peace. No more furrowed browsers.<\/p>\n

Oh, but now Google just won’t let it go. Techdows<\/em> has spotted<\/a> that when users suddenly log on to their Gmail accounts from a new device — via the strange browser that is the new Edge — they get the standard security alert email message.<\/p>\n

But a large part of it is now a slightly stroppy suggestion that they should use Chrome instead.<\/p>\n

It reads: “Make the most out of Windows 10 with the Chrome browser. Chrome is a fast, simple, and secure browser, built for the modern Web.”<\/p>\n

Does this mean that Edge is a slow, complicated and insecure browser, built for Caxton<\/a>‘s paper klaxon?<\/p>\n

Yes, you’ll tell me that Google has to advertise whenever and wherever it can. You’ll also tell me Microsoft does something similar when you use Hotmail via, say, Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the more Google shows its competitiveness with any — even subtle — reference to Edge, the more it gives Microsoft’s browser credibility.<\/p>\n

When you’re the market leader, it’s best not to acknowledge your lesser rivals. True, Google doesn’t specifically mention Edge here. Yet the fact that it feels so needy — this is a security alert, after all — as to remind any GMail-loving Edge users that Chrome exists shows more than a hint of insecurity.<\/p>\n

OK Google, so someone logged onto their Gmail account via Edge. Be cool about it. Perhaps even perform a little survey and ask them what they think of Edge.<\/p>\n

Or does Google already know that Microsoft’s new browser really is quite good, while Chrome is getting a little tired?<\/p>\n

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See Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/topic\/google\/<\/a>
Contact Information:<\/b>
Chris Matyszczyk<\/p>\n

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