However, I just went on a sort of browser deep dive for the best browser on windows and came away, surprisingly, with edge.
The requirements were vertical tabs, keep my chrome extensions, and got out of my way.
Brave, firefox, chrome, and vivaldi all had issues that couldn't be resolved in the UI. For example, firefox's tree style tabs still kinda requires that you keep the top tabs for some uses.
I didn't even consider edge at first. The rewards/shopping/bingwhatever integrations were disqualifiers. But apparently, you can disable all of them fairly quickly.
The pdf viewer is also better than chrome's with extended options.
I guess I also must admit the benefit of not fighting windows because I'm doing what they want.
We'll see if their next forced update reverts to their awful defaults but for now, I'm happy with it. At least until arc browser is available.
It's a real shame that Microsoft is so schizophrenia here. If they were to respect their customers, they would gain far more than they would lose.
The dev-focused arm seems to understand long term customer goodwill but the OS/browser team does not.