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bentaxle | 10:25 Mon 02nd Nov 2015 | Computers
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(MacAfee warning) ,Edge does not allow Browser extensions which lets MacAfee protect your personal information and identity We recommend using Internet Explorer so MacAfee can continue protecting you
To help you we'll unpin Edge from your Task Bar and pin Internet Explorer
on Having just installed Windows 10 and think Edge is quite good, is there any way I can use Edge safely
My McAfee is supplied by BT which comes with their Infinity bundle
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You can use Edge fairly safely, but McAfee won't be able to "scan" every link on the page. If you find yourself using a lot, you will have to make a downgrade - or switch to Chrome where the extension will be avilable.
There's absolutely no reason as to why you can't continue to use Edge as long as you're happy to dispense with the additional protection that McAfee claims to offer you through the use of its browser extension. However you'll have to wait until some time next year if you want to use Edge with any extensions. As with everything they've ever produced, Microsoft have dumped a product onto their customers well before it's anywhere near to ready:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2996726/web-browsers/microsoft-confirms-no-add-ons-for-edge-browser-this-year.html

While you're waiting, why not use a decent browser instead?
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
Edge is fine - much like the last version of IE it renders text the best on screen.

I am always a little bit unsure of the "extra" protection provided by McAfee when using these plugins. All plugins are inherrently dangerous as you're letting someone else acces your browser and therefore how you see the web.
//By making Internet Explorer part of Windows, Microsoft left the browser open to security holes in the operating system. Microsoft Edge is a standalone app that can be more easily updated. And it runs in "sandbox" mode, meaning it runs in its own isolated, protected space. That makes it harder for, say, malware to infect other programs running on the same computer. And with Edge, every single Web page will be opened in its own sandbox, or "app container.//
//Microsoft Edge does have add on/Extension because MS believed that normal user wasn't smart enough uses them correctly. Problem with IE people keep on installing these add on/Extension which slow IE, also could add Security problems. //
Looks not to be compatible with MacAfee bentaxle. I like the browser, it is miles better than IE11 and has cured my Answerbank 'problems'. There are a number of Microsoft and MacAfee forums that give quite clear advice, I have not included web links as there are quite a few.
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Thank you all for help much appreciated I think I would bury this computer in the garden if it were not for the advice and help I get on here
Thank you all again now its cup of tea and biscuit time ,and time to absorb
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