I've official made the switch from Chrome to Edge

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smroadkill15 said:

As a long time Chrome only user, I've decided to fully switch over to Edge. For such a long time, MS browsers were just bad and slow, and I hated anytime I had to use it for something(work related usually), but I've only had positive experience with the new Edge browser. Chrome seems to be getting worse and slower as time goes by. Edge just seems clean and speedy. Even after full shutdown, it takes no time to boot up. 

My browser history(no bun intended) started with IE, then Firefox for a couple years, Chrome for roughly 8 years, and now Edge. Maybe in a few years I'll switch again. 

Has anyone else made the jump or seen themselves increase use with Edge? I know how hard it is to switch from one thing to something else entirely, which is why I used Chrome for as long as I did. 

Not a big jump, since both use the exact same rendering engine, chromium. Edge used to have it's own engine, until they switched in late 2018.

I'm mainly using Opera (and the gaming-centric Opera GX as a secondary browser), which is also based on chromium. It goes so far that in addition to Opera's own extensions, one can install standard chrome extensions without much fuss if there's no Opera version available.

Fun fact: The rendering engine of chromium is called blink and is a fork of webcore, one of the main components of webkit, the engine of the safari browser. As a result, all major browsers these days safe for Firefox are closely related.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 17 April 2021