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Finally I migrated from Chrome to Edge

Akash Kava on March 13, 2020

Why did I want to migrate? First of all its very dangerous to keep all your data with one company, especially knowing fact that Google i...
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Andrei Fedotov

Awesome experience, thanks for sharing!

A good point that it's dangerous in terms of keeping all your data with one company, I completely agree. On top of that I would think that data which is placed not on my server is not my data...

As for me Chrome Debugger Tool is the best tool for JS debugging I have ever used. Nonetheless, I don't use Chrome anymore. Now Firefox is my main browser.

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Saurabh Ranjan • Edited

What about DuckDuckGo and even Firefox(currently I am using it) ?

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Umutcan Kuş

I'm using Firefox Developer Edition and it has incredibly powerful developer tools. I think Firefox is more powerful than Chrome on that.

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Saurabh Ranjan

I think Firefox have better privacy policies as well.

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Akash Kava

Firefox is great, but as a secondary testing browser, its just that for development I am more comfortable with Chrome Developer tools.

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Manav Misra

Interesting. I would have chosen FF though - open source - anti-snooping, etc.

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Alexandre Negrel

Have you ever tried Brave with Qwant for privacy. It's pretty accurate, I'm good with it for 6 month now.

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Akash Kava

Yes I did try Brave, but as mentioned in earlier comments, I am more comfortable storing my data in Microsoft data center. Also I feel there must be many browser and marketshare of browsers must be distributed equally instead of single monopoly.

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Dávid Zoltán

I use Opera for a while because of the same reasons.

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Akash Kava

Yes Opera is good, I tried using it long time back, when they weren't using chromium, it was buggy so I never tried again.

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Madza

Tails + TOR browser bundle is all you need.

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Akash Kava

TOR is gray area marketplace, I don't think I want to install anything related to TOR on my dev machines. I don't want to be anonymous, I just don't want to be spied on.

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Akash Kava

Yes I did, but I want to store all my cookies and history with Microsoft, I don't trust how Brave will make money and survive for free.