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Why I ditched chrome for Edge?

Jatin Sharma on December 12, 2021

I've been using google chrome for a long time I love the extensions and the look and feel of chrome but then I realized that all these extensions n...
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Greg Charles Tsang See-Kee Ze

Both end-user brand-name products are based on the open source Chromium base. Each final trademarked product has some extensions and add-ons installed. Then we can install our own selection on top.
Each brand-name then remembers the usual configuration for each end-user. When the newest version of the app is installed, onto the same system, or another system, the standard Chromium foundations will remember the configuration of the registered end-user.
Not all possible add-ons, nor extensions are available for most brands. For example, there are many types of advertisement blockers. All fail on some internet links. Microsoft Edge has fewer of these apps than most Chromium based units. My preference is Slimjet, for both Windows and Linux. Android seems best with "1dm+", rather than Chromium or Microsoft Edge. My favourite web test site is Distrowatch, which specializes in having unblockable advertisements.

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Jatin Sharma

Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

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Alexey Grinko

I can recommend Vivaldi browser for all the aforementioned features and more, such as tabs grouping, blocking ads (even in many video players!), better debugging tools, convenient overlay panel and great customizability

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Jatin Sharma

Yeh that's a pretty good browser.

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Alex Keeprock

You can actually take a screenshot with Chrome. Hit up developer console, press Shift+Cmd+P, search for «Screenshot».

Also, install the Grammarly extension, if you are not a native speaker. It will help not only you, but your readers immensely too.

Get well!

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Jatin Sharma

Thanks Alex for sharing. :)

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Pixelomo

This post brought to you by microsoft sponsorship.

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Jatin Sharma

LoL, that was good 😂.

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TheNickest

Interesting topic but the absence of either proper punctuation or punctuation at all makes it hard to read. Sorry.. couldn’t make it beyond the first 10%..

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Jatin Sharma

Thanks for being honest man, Next time I'll keep that in mind.

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Alex

Privacy, qr, vertical Tabs. Strong arguments to switch browser 🤣

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Jatin Sharma

It's not about arguments it's about comfort.