• ramskulls@beehaw.org
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      I adopted Edge when it started out as a more lightweight Chrome. After that I eventually just got used to it, like a frog being slow-cooked? And now I find it hard to leave, even though it’s gotten more and more bloated. Edge has a really nice text to speech feature with natural voices that I use a lot. I’ve read a lot of books in the two years I’ve been using edge. If I could find an alternative with that feature that was also cross-platform I would gladly switch in a heartbeat.

    • aMalayali@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Edge is/was(have read that windows fixed some defender issue) slightly faster than firefox.

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          I’ve used Chrome(Haven’t yet tried Ungoogled Chromium on PC. Have used Bromite in the past). It doesn’t seem to be much faster.

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            Not much faster, no. Still the same core, just fewer compulsory extensions like this Snoopy one.

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      I think it is a lot of the latter at this point, tbh. Non tech-savvy folks that don’t even think about the browser software at all, let alone know there are other options or seek them out.