MSEdge VS qBittorrent

Download Edge Dev from https://microsoftedgeinsider.com

Very much not open source, except maybe some pieces, the repo is just a damn readme and an MIT license (???), like "oh yeah, thanks, let me fork your readme, it's always been my dream"

It was never in that repository as confirmed by the commit log: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge/commits/master

No. Microsoft Edge is fully open-source: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge. It even has an MIT license.

I'm distrustful of Microsoft as well. That said, Microsoft is changing and it is best to keep oneself updated on what Microsoft is saying and doing in regard to Open Source. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge

Not exactly. Chromium, which edge is based on, itself is open source, but the microsoft browser has too much hidden tracking stuff to be open source. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge

Just showing the github means nothing. Microsoft Edge has a github, but it just has a readme and an "MIT" license. The actual thing isn't open source.

> What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?

It is incredibly difficult to build a web browser because of the sheer complexity and scope. You are essentially building an entire platform on the scale of an operating system that must support legacy features and behavior from decades ago. Users expect everything to just work, and if you can't make it work, then they have little incentive to use your product. Just ask Microsoft[0].

[0] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge/blob/7d69268e85e198c...

Not really. qBittorent is built on Qt (thus the prefix), and has a hand-rolled webui in pure html + css + js (with a couple of helper libraries, but no heavy frameworks):

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/tree/master/src/w...

Use this. Just google how to on ytube.

Now if curious about installing errors and other installer related issues, then here's a small collection: https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/s/cwCUg9JHLj https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/discussions/17581 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/17605 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18340 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19980 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18636 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19226 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19991 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19978 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19977

I’ve used qbittorrent for the last few years. Had no problems with it

Torrenting clients - qBittorrent still supports Win7 if you select the qt5 variant. For people that do not know what qBittorrent is - it is uTorrent, just without bloatware, ads, malware and such. It's open-source. UPDATE: it dropped Win7 support in October. ;_; (quick, somebody make a fork! https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/ ) - here's the last downloadable Win7 version - https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent-old.html?dwl=qbittorrent_4.5.5_lt20_qt5_x64_setup.exe (but hey, I'm still downloading torrents fine in under WinXP 32-bit via the ancient uTorrent 2.2.1, so this version of qBittorrent might last for 10+ years for Win7...)

.........What download manager are you using there? Whatever it is, stop and uninstall it like yesterday. Get this https://www.qbittorrent.org/ and try again.

qBittorrent announces Tailscale IPs that are practically never connectable. I believe it's a bug so I reported it to qBit.