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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Well, I switched to Edge for work with the latest Chrome update (since internal apps were Chromium only), and was pleasantly surprised. It actually let me turn off almost all the junk, and is responsive in a way I haven’t seen in a Chromium browser in years.

Safari and Firefox for personal use though, and nothing compelling to make me change that.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The performance is pretty on-par with other major browsers now, but it is the obscene amount of popups built into the browser that irritates me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use edge for work every day, what popups?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same I'm a developer who uses edge as my daily driver and once setup right I love it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use arc on my mac and it’s nowhere near as nice as that, but I like the side tabs, the way it gets out of the way when I’m searching, and bing isn’t too bad; I’ve actually used it a few times. Once I found a customizable start page I haven’t looked back. Again, for work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s the shopping popup that tries to find better deals or vouchers for products you’re looking at. It’s easy to turn off though.

Searching the settings for “notification” does show others - a feature called Discover and sidebar apps seem to be able to send notifications but I’ve never seen either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Maybe look at ~~Bromite~~Cromite? Open Source Chromium browser where you don't need to disable anything

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bromite has not been updated since January.

One of the old Bromite contributors forked it: https://github.com/uazo/cromite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, that one. Thanks for pointing it out

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

its based off of chromium, so one would expect it to be as fast as most modern browsers.

its the annoyances built on top of them, and user privacy that matters in a browser nowadays

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same, I'm only allowed to use either Chrome or Edge on my work laptop, so I chose Edge.

Librewolf on my personal laptop and Firefox on mobile tho.

[–] netchami 4 points 1 year ago

If you need to use Chromium, just use Ungoogled-Chromium or Brave. But Firefox/LibreWolf will always be superior.