Chrome to Edge

[honest1]

Hey everyone,

I'm curious to know if any of you who were heavy Chrome users have recently made the switch to Microsoft Edge. If so, how has your experience been with the transition? I'm interested in hearing about the pros and cons you've encountered – anything from speed and compatibility to specific features that stood out (or maybe didn't).

Sharing your insights could be super helpful for others considering a similar move. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

 

[devagya]

I was on this boat last year, I have been using edge as main browser for the past year.

pros
-comptibility same as chrome
-vertical tabs
-grouped vertical tabs (best feature imo)
-preinstalled
-lower memory footprint and better battery savings because of sleeping tabs.

cons
- bloatware by default

 

[kartikoli]

Is there any other good alternate instead of edge? I want to switch my work browser from chrome to something else where lots of extensions are installed.

 

[buzz88]

Is there any other good alternate instead of edge? I want to switch my work browser from chrome to something else where lots of extensions are installed.

Vivaldi is great. Based on chromium, so all your extensions will work, but also has a lot of inbuilt features and customisable look. I like tab stacks and saved tab sessions.

Still, ever since YouTube has gone off the bend, I find myself using firefox more and more. Ublock still works on yt on it.

 

[dvader]

Vivaldi is great. Based on chromium, so all your extensions will work, but also has a lot of inbuilt features and customisable look. I like tab stacks and saved tab sessions.

Still, ever since YouTube has gone off the bend, I find myself using firefox more and more. Ublock still works on yt on it.

been using Firefox for last 12 years, and all this time it has served me well. And among all chromium based browsers Edge would be a better choice cuz it has been rolled out to enterprise users and MS can not pull off things like google does.

 

[ibose]

And among all chromium based browsers Edge would be a better choice cuz it has been rolled out to enterprise users and MS can not pull off things like google does.

Hmm.. you do realize that Chrome is also available to the Enterprise users which means jack shit when it comes to what they can and cannot do to normal users.
Meanwhile, in Europe -

Breaking: Windows users in the EEA will soon be able to remove Bing and Edge - gHacks Tech News

Windows users from the European Economic Area will soon have more control over their devices. Here are the details.

www.ghacks.net

 

[Mr.J]

Hmm.. you do realize that Chrome is also available to the Enterprise users which means jack shit when it comes to what they can and cannot do to normal users.
Meanwhile, in Europe -

Breaking: Windows users in the EEA will soon be able to remove Bing and Edge - gHacks Tech News

Windows users from the European Economic Area will soon have more control over their devices. Here are the details.

www.ghacks.net

He means that since Microsoft's main selling point is compatibility, they will not be removing features the way Google does.

 

[JMak]

I use ungoogled chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium)
though you need to update manually and adding and updating extensions is a pain especially for the first time (and I guess every time), but I like to to control stuff with the help of extensions instead of giving it all to gooo.gal

 

[ibose]

He means that since Microsoft's main selling point is compatibility, they will not be removing features the way Google does.

Ah ok. I understand now.
Although I would have thought all browsers based on Chrome (includes Edge) would provide the same level of compatibility.

I use ungoogled chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium)
though you need to update manually and adding and updating extensions is a pain especially for the first time (and I guess every time), but I like to to control stuff with the help of extensions instead of giving it all to gooo.gal

I use the ungoogled build packaged with chrlauncher from here -

Download latest stable Chromium binaries (64-bit and 32-bit)

Download latest stable Chromium binaries for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Android (64-bit and 32-bit)

chromium.woolyss.com

It notifies when there is an update available, then downloads and updates, if instructed to do so.
Lately I have been looking at Cromite as it's available for both mobile and desktop -

GitHub - uazo/cromite: Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser! - GitHub - uazo/cromite: Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your b...

github.com

 

[chetan99]

Hey everyone,

I'm curious to know if any of you who were heavy Chrome users have recently made the switch to Microsoft Edge. If so, how has your experience been with the transition? I'm interested in hearing about the pros and cons you've encountered – anything from speed and compatibility to specific features that stood out (or maybe didn't).

Sharing your insights could be super helpful for others considering a similar move. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

I switched from Chrome to Edge a couple of years back, when everyone was talking about how bloated Chrome had become and Edge was surprisingly better. And it was true, so I stuck with Edge. Now though, the difference is negligible and Edge also has too many features I don't care about and feels a little bloated. I'm thinking of jumping to Firefox as it feels like as long as you stick to Chromium you'll be jumping between various flavours of it with the only selling point being that one is less bad than the other.

 

[nitin_g3]

I don't use chrome anymore unless required(google services, office usage etc.)
Edge is now my goto browser. There's nothing I'm missing, all extentions, adons are available.

 

[kartikoli]

Vivaldi is great. Based on chromium, so all your extensions will work, but also has a lot of inbuilt features and customisable look. I like tab stacks and saved tab sessions.

Still, ever since YouTube has gone off the bend, I find myself using firefox more and more. Ublock still works on yt on it.

I don't like vivaldi but I still use it with one of my profile. For me FF is the one which I use for personal use, Chrome for company official stuff, Brave for all the daily task for my work (Most used) and Cent for another company official stuff. Its easier to keep different browsers for each profile so we don't mix things but was thinking to switch chrome as I don't use it much but its open almost all the time.

For youtube I use Brave

 

[honest1]

Does switching to Edge resulted in better battery life of laptop?

 

[devagya]

Does switching to Edge resulted in better battery life of laptop?

if you enable battery saving features. like automatically sleeping tabs

 

[honest1]

if you enable battery saving features. like automatically sleeping tabs

Ok, this feature is also available in Chrome now. Have enabled it !

 

[devagya]

Ok, this feature is also available in Chrome now. Have enabled it !

I use it like this on my laptop.

 

[nRiTeCh]

FF only user here for 1.5 decade. No issues whatsoever, tons of extensions and what not. No complaints and easily handling my 2k+ bookmarks with ease.

 

[gokul.ece22]

My entire organization has switched from chrome to edge. Everyone is liking it.
Im using it daily from the WFH days.

Memory management is good. Gives a bit extra battery backup.

 

[Tarantula]

FF only user here for 15 decades.

What is your age? I thought that the Firefox browser did not exist before the internet.

 

[devagya]

What is your age? I thought that the Firefox browser did not exist before the internet.

I think he meant 15 years, not 15 decades