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I recently ditched both Chrome and Firefox. Now super happy with Safari.

I never thought I would say this, but I'm actually really looking forward to the new Chromium based Edge browser.

They have announced they will be releasing builds for Linux recently. They also are weighing their options with the Manifest v3 changes.

If Microsoft wanted to steal a bunch of users from Chrome, this seems like an easy "win". Don't support / force the Manifest v3 changes and win a bunch of goodwill from people who are able to use uBlock Origin style adblockers.

I know this has implications with extension compatibility but won't this just mean that the new Edge browser supports a super-set of extensions when compared to Chrome?

How do you get by without extensions? The extension "store" (now part of the App Store) isn't searchable, and among the available extensions, which are very few, most are junkware.

Not OP, but my use cases don't really require "traditional" extensions; 1Blocker and the Instapaper button are all I really need and want for day to day browsing, so improved extension support on other browsers doesn't add any value for me.

I have 1Blocker for ads and Enpass for passwords. That’s all I need. The developer console is very good, I rarely need anything else.

The only extensions I need are an adblocker (Wipr, 1Blocker) and 1Password.

Eats lot of RAM, has limited number of extensions, doesn't support royalty-free VP9 video codec. Feature-wise better than Edge, worse than FF ( https://caniuse.com/ ).

I used to use safari on Mac when on battery. It used seems more battery saving. I also use it at work when plugged in as my “personal browser” (email/banks etc). work web browsing is Firefox and chrome (for testing)

The new firefox is better at power management but since I’m on a Linux laptop it’s now Firefox (no safari on Linux).

Gnome Web/Epiphany uses the same browser engine as Safari in case you want to use it there.

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