It's unfortunate that the entire world is headed this way. I've been bullish about tech for my ENTIRE life. Since I was a kid. But it's a weird feeling, all the data collection. Europe has the right ideas about this.

Edge was pretty bad before they replaced it with Chrome Edge.

The rendering engine was nicer than ie, but they built a queue between the UI and the browser engine, so navigation including the stop button didn't interrupt the work in progress until it polled the queue, which could be seconds later when it had gotten stuck (as browsers do), and then it would go ahead and do the many actions you had queued up.

Reskinned Chrome is less bad, I guess.