The engine may end up being an "Enterprise Mode" like IE I think?

Edge as a browser works well but with a few show stoppers that killed any further usage for us:
1: Downloads mysteriously won't start or just plain stop for no reason.
2: Edge ate my favourites way too many times.

The containerized Edge, Application Guard I think(?), is a great idea. If Edge was as good as they had hoped it would provide a fantastic sandbox experience to protect users from drive-by attacks and bad GET commands from e-mail clients.

At least we are not getting stuck with the legacy ActiveX that keeps rearing its head every once in a while because of IE. 😛

@Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

@Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

On a Chromebook, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, etc.?

On an iPad, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome, etc.?

The import thing is that you CAN set them to NOT Edge.

Yeah, well you see... it's no different than what other vendors are doing with their restrictive OSs.... it just so happens that Edge is new and people need to fix their programming 😛

runs away

Yeah... that's the issue.

@Tim_G said in Edge the Big Loser at Pwn2Own:

The most impressive exploit by far, and also a first for Pwn2Own, was a virtual machine escape through an Edge flaw by a security team from “360 Security.” The team leveraged a heap overflow bug in Edge, a type confusion in the Windows kernel, and an uninitialized buffer in VMware Workstation for a complete virtual machine escape.
The team hacked its way in via the Edge browser, through the guest Windows OS, through the VM, all the way to the host operating system. This impressive chained-exploit gained the 360 Security team $105,000.

I thought VMWare fixed the possibility of this from being possible? This is now the third time I've heard of VM escape on the VMWare platform.

I wonder who is tracking VM escape rates.

InfoWorld has an article about Microsoft's Chakra and ChakraCore efforts as well: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3024271/javascript/nodejs-welcomes-microsoft-chakra-javascript-engine.html

Of the two, I feel like FF works better for the NodeBB sites, at least for ML.