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I am so sick of Microsoft and Edge.  I just updated Edge and it wiped all my personalization settings.  Even removed the installed extensions and worst of all put me back to that POS Bing search engine.  I'm so sick of this cr*p from MS.

 

Anyone recommend an alternate browser that is good on security and not a complete and total f*cking POS?

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haha, been saying that since internet exploder was a thing XD

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Off the top of my head alternatives are:

  1. Firefox
  2. Google Chrome
  3. Cromium
  4. Brave
  5. Opera
  6. Avast Secure Browser

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I switched to Opera in November. I'm loving it so far. Close enough to Chrome to be familiar to people that use it, Chromium based so you can use Chrome extensions. 

 

I'm not 100% sure their track record on being...secure.. 

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

Off the top of my head alternatives are:

  1. Firefox
  2. Google Chrome
  3. Cromium
  4. Brave
  5. Opera
  6. Avast Secure Browser

out of these firefox is proably the best due to the fact it dosnt eat ram

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2 minutes ago, ComradeCoconut said:

out of these firefox is proably the best due to the fact it dosnt eat ram

Ah the age old meme of Chrome eating more RAM than Firefox. Even though nowadays it's literally the other way around.

 

Not that I would know after switching like 6 months ago or anything, noticing a healthy reduction in RAM usage.

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1 minute ago, ComradeCoconut said:

out of these firefox is proably the best due to the fact it dosnt eat ram

IMO RAM is cheap and plentiful. If your browser eats it it just means your system isn't adequate for your workload. :3

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3 minutes ago, ComradeCoconut said:

out of these firefox is proably the best due to the fact it dosnt eat ram

I have 22 Chrome tabs open.
I'm using 1.3GB of RAM.

Windows is using more RAM than Chrome.

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4 minutes ago, ComradeCoconut said:

out of these firefox is proably the best due to the fact it dosnt eat ram

Chrome does not use more RAM than any other modern browser. Your jokes are a decade late.

Quote me to see my reply!

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17 minutes ago, lfk said:

I am so sick of Microsoft and Edge

While it's difficult to avoid Microsoft,  there's really no excuse to use edge however, unless you like it or something. 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, ComradeCoconut said:

out of these firefox is proably the best due to the fact it dosnt eat ram

ffs i make a joke now people are going insane

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8 minutes ago, ComradeCoconut said:

ffs i make a joke now people are going insane

Welcome to the internet of 2021. 😞

And way before. 😄

 

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I'm just helping YOU to help YOURSELF!
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5 minutes ago, ComradeCoconut said:

ffs i make a joke now people are going insane

Yes, that's usually what happens when you make a shitty joke that comes off as a sincere thought from a lack of /jk or /s at the end of it.

 

You know, because it's text, and emotion doesn't translate through text well at all.

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Just now, flibberdipper said:

Yes, that's usually what happens when you make a shitty joke that comes off as a sincere thought from a lack of /jk or /s at the end of it.

 

You know, because it's text, and emotion doesn't translate through text well at all.

It became a joke when it was met with opposition lmao

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I use hardened configs of Ungoogled Chromium (primary) and Firefox (uni work and Discord alt). Both have worked wonderfully for me. Firefox might be better however, since it lets you set a password to encrypt saved logins and lets you block known tracking cookies or all 3rd party cookies as opposed to Chromium which only offers blocking 3rd party cookies altogether which can cause certain sites to not work (which is another reason I use Firefox for uni work).

 

I'm using https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher to handle updates for Ungoogled Chromium. Just make sure you edit the config file to use the ungoogled fork.

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2 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

haha, been saying that since internet exploder was a thing XD

I'm not sure if this is a joke or a typo lol

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42 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

I'm not sure if this is a joke or a typo lol

No it's accurate spelling. 

Internet Exploder

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Windows Exploder lots of blue screens.

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Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

No it's accurate spelling. 

Internet Exploder

Ford Exploder

Windows Exploder lots of blue screens.

Ok. So it's a joke.

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Ok. So it's a joke.

WELL NOT ANY MORE ....... lol

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Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

WELL NOT ANY MORE ....... lol

Well some people (like me sometimes) can't get the tone from across text.

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Well some people (like me sometimes) can't get the tone from across text.

I throw curve balls in here and there. wkdpaul caught it. 🙂 

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OR......
Just do as I did and ditch Winblows all together.

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