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It's really a question of whether flexibility or UI performance is a higher priority for you. If you want incredible customization options, go to Firefox. If you want Chrome's UI performance, stick to Chromium.

Edge is getting there!

Surprised that this is the straw and it wasn't the hotwording binary that was pulled in to listen for "ok, google" without anyone's knowledge or permission.

Is it possible to disable DRM in Edge?

Did that binary ever listen to anything? And as far as I know, the hotwording binary outrage was about Chromium, not about Chrome.

I'd be OK with Edge except that in Win10, Edge gets subsumed into "System" in the volume mixer. You can't lower the volume on the Edge program, like you can on Firefox, Chrome, or on previous versions of IE.

In short, when ads or background music start blasting, you can either mute your entire system, or you're stuck with them - can't mute Edge specifically.

That's a killer feature right there.

Edge is getting pretty good, it's UI performance is as good or better than Chrome now. BUT, if you're leaving Chrome because they include proprietary binaries, moving to Edge isn't an improvement there.

Check out Vivaldi and Blisk as well