Windows 10: Spartan

I am not surprised. Maybe it's like IE. Just disable under "Turn Windows Features On And Off"? Just a wild guess. I am away from the PC.

 

Not in "On or Off" either It looks like we are stuck with it unless you go through the OS and manually delete all the Spartan items.

 

Hey it's bloody fast though, runs nicely on my SP3. Very nice and smooth.
Features are patchy and disabled/buggy though yes.

Definitely holds promise. Don't stuff this up MSFT!!!

Early preview of the developer tools looked annoying, but it was locked, can't really say yet.

 

Frankly, no sarcasm to you, I am not surprised it is fast - it has no useable features yet, to speak of. Holds promise? Those dozens of programming experts, from the largest IT organisation in the world, have been "developing " this for 6 months or even more. This is the best they can throw at us for examination??

 

I've given up testing it as it is just too raw. But after a few more versions I might give it some more time!

 

Doing the same thing.. it's too early in it's development to really test it out properly.

 

IE and File Explorer aren't in that list either Edwin. There are other apps missing from the list as well such as Notepad, Wordpad, etc... It seems that list only contains items that can be uninstalled.

 

It should be fast on SP3. That's the kind of platform MS is basing all of these from.... mobile devices.

 

Spartan is perfectly usable in it's present state. It does have some quirks but nothing major that I would say make it unusable.

I'm not sure about it being any faster than any other browsers I've used, I don't perceive speed differences in browsers, they're all about the same as far as I can tell.

The major thing missing for me is addons (such as adblocker).

I like the "Reading" view, just wish it was available on more pages than it is.

After using Spartan for awhile, I can't say I'd consider moving over to it from FireFox unless it got way better, as it is, it's just another browser, nothing to make it stand out.

 

Yes, I understand that. My primary concern is not this "Downloads Place" though, is the behavior when you click to download a file. Spartan does not ask for any confirmation right now. But as you said it's still under heavy development (I understand) and I hope that this will be added in future release. I've made my suggestion though (not as a problem, but as a suggestion) in Feedback App, just in any case *Smile

I'm using Spartan in my everyday browsing (just for 2 days) and I can say it works pretty much well.

 

That option will come. It's just not ready. I stopped using Spartan not because the download option isn't ready, but Spartan itself is not ready yet. MS is making us do their job by building it from scratch. What we have is only the interface. There's nothing else in it.

 

I think you're right! Seems there's a new addition to the 'fold'!

 

I went back to using Pale Moon. I gave Spartan a try and it's definitely not ready. I'll give it another try when it gets updated.

 

It'd be nice if they could slip the odd 'Spartan hotfix' in, a couple times a week or so, as opposed to waiting for another new Build.

 

Isn't that the point of testing a preview? Testing it? So MS can get feedback of what sites don't work (via the frown button), so they can get telemetry, so they get feedback when it doesn't work and crashes?

If you all just say "Pfff, not good enough for me, I can't be bothered to test it" then I wonder why you bother with the preview at all - you may as well just look at pictures.