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I find Edge is a nice alternative

I tried Edge on mobile. Before, I had thought chrome, and to a lesser extend firefox, phoned home a lot.

But oh boy, does edge on android phone home. You'd think a phone home party was going on, as the tcpdump flies off your screen...

No thanks.

Whoa. If you have low memory (like 2GB or 4) in your PC, then Edge is not your friend.

Problem is Electron as the backend for Edge.

That is completely wrong, "electron as the back-end", LOL WTF.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/electron-...

And? Electron can use chrome or edge components, the latter aren't based on electron, it is based (in part) on them.

Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too.

Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade...

Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.

Something Edge has going for it is that it's the only browser on Windows where hardware acceleration seems to consistently work.

I haven't really tried using Edge for general use, but I do use it whenever I want text-to-speech. That's a lot better in Edge than other options I've tried.

The browser of the OS producer works best with the OS, honi soit qui mal y pense

I wouldn't touch Edge because I still remember the days when IE was dominating the market. As much as I despise Google being the one now, I do not miss those days and do not trust Microsoft to do anything good if they were in this position again. So you can make fun of people concerned about privacy, but history proved there's a lot more concerns to have regarding Microsoft

I remember those times too, completely different group of management, and the way they've done business in the last near decade, has also been very different. Some throwbacks, but on the whole, vastly different. I've been watching, you clearly haven't. And aside from that, they're never going to be in the "same position", the market is entirety different.

I can see you've been watching their marketing indeed... Now I've seen Windows 10 and Windows 11, it doesn't really depict a different Microsoft.

you're absolutely right, it's great for an average consumer who doesn't care about privacy

Mainly great for users who are way more technically literate than the avg. hand-wavey user.

It's a different skin on Chromium. So it's an alternative in some regards, and not in others.

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