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Give OPERA a try. It has everything you require [low on resource, inbuilt adblocker etc ], including a VPN too for browsing.

Personally I dont like EDGE, or chrome. FF is good; but its heavy on RAM.
 
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joy.das.jd said:
Give OPERA a try. It has everything you require [low on resource, inbuilt adblocker etc ], including a VPN too for browsing.

Personally I dont like EDGE, or chrome. FF is good; but its heavy on RAM.
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including a VPN too for browsing.
VPN by opera? Does it have an Indian location? Any speed/data limit?
 
Yes it has an inbuilt VPN. The server is mostly European. But you have a crude option to select location. There is no data limit.
But I have observed that speed is reduced to almost half.

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I use chrome on work laptop but it eats too much RAM. With chrome and teams open (and couple of excel and ppts) and on a call and if I start screen sharing, my teams will crash.

Will edge help me? I dont even have more than 3 tabs open.
 
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raksrules said:
I use chrome on work laptop but it eats too much RAM. With chrome and teams open (and couple of excel and ppts) and on a call and if I start screen sharing, my teams will crash.

Will edge help me? I dont even have more than 3 tabs open.
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Edge is the best browser after FF. Give it a shot.
 
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but dont know why that 'Disable Geetings' option is not available for you.
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its called AB testing / cohort study -- you both are in different group for extracting analytics.
This is common in almost all web-based apps.
In brave built in reader-mode is available to one group while unavailable for other.

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Youtube blocker to block youtube ads.
Another 2 blockers for adblocking in websites.
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you seeing ads in yt because of the adblock you using - which pass "acceptable ads" after taking money from google.
Your this ad-blocking setup is doing more harm than benefit and stressing the system.

just install https://ublockorigin.com/ keep the default filters and add https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
get the - Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling, flavour if you use any social media including linkedIn, and *ahem* sites.

if you feel uBO little overwhelming to begin with - start with easy mode, see this https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
if you are technically sound, use medium mode - but you have to train the dynamic filter for some time ( manually).


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back to the topic, @becool773 try Brave or Opera GX if you haven't already.
If on windows 10/11 .. Edge is pretty much one need, with few addons to stop MS's call home.
 
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Ramadhir Singh said:
its called AB testing / cohort study -- you both are in different group for extracting analytics.
This is common in almost all web-based apps.
In brave built in reader-mode is available to one group while unavailable for other.


you seeing ads in yt because of the adblock you using - which pass "acceptable ads" after taking money from google.
Your this ad-blocking setup is doing more harm than benefit and stressing the system.

just install https://ublockorigin.com/ keep the default filters and add https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
get the - Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling, flavour if you use any social media including linkedIn, and *ahem* sites.

if you feel uBO little overwhelming to begin with - start with easy mode, see this https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
if you are technically sound, use medium mode - but you have to train the dynamic filter for some time ( manually).


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back to the topic, @becool773 try Brave or Opera GX if you haven't already.
If on windows 10/11 .. Edge is pretty much one need, with few addons to stop MS's call home.
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What is the difference between Opera and Opera GX?
Which addons for Edge would you suggest? Any way to stop Edge from sharing the data with MS, in the name of analytics?
 
Options for chromium based browsers that you could check out:
Chromium (not Google Chrome) you might have to build it from source though
Edge (Good balance of features, resource usage, difficult to disable telemetry)
Opera (Good enough, use the GX version for best perf with minimal resource usage)
Firefox Dev channel (surprisingly more lightweight on my system than release, may have bugs though)
 
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becool773 said:
What is the difference between Opera and Opera GX?
Which addons for Edge would you suggest? Any way to stop Edge from sharing the data with MS, in the name of analytics?
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Opera GX is the gaming version of Opera browser. You can control your CPU , RAM ,network bandwidth usage on it. Although it looks too dark and gaudy to me.
I generally don't like dark themes on PC.:poto:
 
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senpaidev said:
Options for chromium based browsers that you could check out:
Chromium (not Google Chrome) you might have to build it from source though
Edge (Good balance of features, resource usage, difficult to disable telemetry)
Opera (Good enough, use the GX version for best perf with minimal resource usage)
Firefox Dev channel (surprisingly more lightweight on my system than release, may have bugs though)
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Thanks.
Options for chromium based browsers that you could check out:
Options for the same for Android?
 
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Thanks.
Options for chromium based browsers that you could check out:
Options for the same for Android?
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For android, I personally dont have chrome installed.
I use Firefox as my main, Opera for chromium only websites (it sucks I know) and Edge for work. I use a custom rom (LOS 18.1) . It doesn't come with a ton of crap so I'm a bit lucky that way.
 
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senpaidev said:
For android, I personally dont have chrome installed.
I use Firefox as my main, Opera for chromium only websites (it sucks I know) and Edge for work. I use a custom rom (LOS 18.1) . It doesn't come with a ton of crap so I'm a bit lucky that way.
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Try Samsung browser for Android once. You will like it.
 
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