Not surprised - Internet Explorer itself was a fork/port of NCSA Mosaic 
Alas some (very few) websites run better with Explorer so I keep both just in case. I run on Firefox 99.9% of the time though. Agree that Firefox being the less intrusive browser I found, makes me feel better.
Proud to be an an anti-vaccer and flat ---- earther but that’s not what we’re here on this forum for.
What’s the best browser seems to go back and forth which ‘hopefully’ is a good thing for us.
It is annoying if you are forced at work to use microsoft only products, but if there’s no group policy preventing you installing firefox then … and you’ll always have microsoft to fall back on if you have to.
So microsoft have essentially given up the fight and are now becoming another Vivaldi/Opera by switching to open-source google chrome (chromium) they say due to compatibility reasons. Or are we really seeing merger of two giant evils ?
Either way it’s further expansion of Microsoft’s reach/encroachment into our sandbox and I don’t like it.
Microsoft have github, investment in linux and now this go away microsoft.
I’m still waiting for the law that puts parents to prison for not vaccinating their children. It’s the only just thing to do.
hear hear!
Anti-Vax and flat earthers (they have a global reach 
) should also be denied ALL things that result from science (NO computers for you! No life support or modern medicine - just leeches) :
Necroposted Tangential Tirade done :
I just tried out Edge for Linux again - on Ubuntu 20.04 - because it now supports Sync features! Not with Enterprise / Corporate accounts yet - but I can use my personal Microsoft account (the name of which is my main gmail email account) - on Windows 10, and on Linux - so I can sync my settings across computers and different platforms…
The Linux version refused to import my Chrome settings - but I tried the latest version of Edge on Windows 10, imported my Chrome bookmarks and settings, then fired up Edge with Sync on Ubuntu 20.04 - and there’s ALL my bookmarks and stuff and a bunch of cookies too… cooking with gas…
I don’t think it will be my daily driver - but I might test drive it as my main browser for the next few days or so… but I’ll probably wind up back in the Chrome / Chromium camp (running alongside Firefox - AND - TOR)…
What I find most ironic with such groups of people, like flat earthers, islamists, etc., is that they always complain how the world would be better if everyone agreed with them and if nobody would oppose them. This is the message they spread through their specially engineered and nearly fully automatically assembled laptop, drinking coffee from a $1000 fully automatic coffee machine, sitting in their mass produced auto-assembled chair, using the microphone or headset, that is also assembled by a machine and engineered by sound specialists.
Basically, they use all the fruits of our non-religious (flat earthers are kind of a religion, especially once you notice that as soon as you disagree with them on one of their conventions, you are considered the personified devil AND from the tons of flat earthers I have seen, there was only a single non-Chrisitan one, whereas all others were deeply Christian) society, but at the same time hate on our society, by using aforementioned fruits. This hyperdimensional irony.
Even more so, when we imagine a society where they would’ve won. If that were the case, we probably wouldn’t even have toilet paper to wipe our arses, because everyone in society would be a stupid moron who thinks we are running on a disk and can literally fall off the edge, if we travel too far along a single direction…
Although I agree with @Akito and @daniel.m.tripp I think we should it leave as-is, for the sake of our community (we all know, how far those “conversations” can go).