How to choose a browser in 2020
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@HealingCross , I think it was necessary for MS to change browser technology, so as not to be relegated to a simple tool to download a browser. The passage to Chromium was logical and, as I said, I think that others will also do it sooner or later. If it is for system resources, ok, I think Vivaldi is also in a good place at this point, although with the current capabilities of the PCs in the background is more relevant the functionality that offer a browser. It is there where there are the real differences.
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@HealingCross said in How to choose a browser in 2020:
... The new Edge seems way lighter on ressources
While a clean install of Vivaldi may actually use more resources than a clean install of Edge, I think the main reason it uses more on my system is because I use Vivaldi for everything, and Edge for barely anything. I get vastly superior functionality with Vivaldi, so I don't mind the extra few seconds to launch. It's a bit like opening Adobe Photoshop versus Microsoft Paint - of course the program with greater functionality will be slower in some scenarios. The beefier software is slower to start but faster in the long run because it includes tools to work way smarter.
In Edge, I open tabs and that's about it. In Vivaldi, I have 3x web panels, 3x pinned tabs, several tab stacks with 4-20 tabs in each, an ad partial block extension (it still allows non-invasive ads), and the Vimium extension for a few keyboard shortcuts which Vivaldi still hasn't implemented.
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This should be the criterion, it does not help me if a browser opens a tenth of a second faster, if apart from this it lacks any function that allows me to work more efficiently and faster with the browser. Nor do I care so much if I might have some more demands on the system, at least if it is not a very old PC with little memory.
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