Microsoft Edge becomes second-largest desktop browser, surpassing Firefox

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3 pointsanonymousab5 comments

How many people download it by choice though?

I did, early on. It largely seems fine, and really isn't very different from Chrome.

I'm not a very picky browser consumer, though. And unfortunately, all browsers seem to lack my killer feature, which would be to never start a video or animation without an explicit act on my part.

Brave has the option in settings to stop autoplaying videos -

https://brave.com/?ref=trn365

There is also an option in Firefox settings as well.

I feel like I tried these a while ago and neither was entirely effective. Maybe I was doing it wrong, though.

(To be clear, the feature I'm looking for is some sort of irresistible button to start/stop the action that neither the website nor its Javascript can affect. Preferably it would not even be able to tell whether the video was running.)

Me too. I am currently using Disable HTML5 Autoplay addon for Firefox which can disable preloading too. I found that useful on metered data

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