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>"The new version of Chrome signs you into the browser even if you don't want to sign into the software itself"

Damn. I just realized that. Signing out of browser signs you out of GMail. And signing into GMail signs you into the browser. Went to download Edge but turns out it's not on Win Server. MSFT really needs to get its act together.

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Out of curiosity why are you using a web browser on a server?

I used one yesterday on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter because the new version of the only application running there needed .NET 4.7.2. It started IE which after a long sequence of allowing web sites (tracking and not, included Google Analytics) eventually managed to download the installer. IE was already on the server. I really wanted to install Firefox to avoid all that absurdity of whitelisting sites.

Employer's choice of workstation OS :/

Why not Firefox?

Yep that's what I ended up eventually downloading. Edge on Win 10 is not bad actually.

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