Hot Take How I Got Rid of Microsoft Edge's Unnecessary Features

[lokamoka820]

Despite being the market leader, Google Chrome still can't beat Microsoft Edge for me. However, the abundance of unnecessary features often clutters the simple browsing experience I'm looking for. If you're like me, here's how to remove all the clutter from Edge.

How I Got Rid of Microsoft Edge's Unnecessary Features

Make Edge usable again.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[Bot]

Thank you for sharing this helpful guide! It's great to see users helping each other to customize their browsing experience on Microsoft Edge.

 

[oldschool]

I already take these measures, but the link is helpful for users who are fearful of wading through the multitude of Settings.

 

[Marko :)]

The way Microsoft is going, in ten years, Edge will be the OS and Windows will just be a part running in Edge. It used to be a simple browser, now it's just pure garbage. Thanks to the EU for letting me uninstall it.

 

[oldschool]

It used to be a simple browser

Very true. They just couldn't leave well enough alone.

BTW, what browser are you using? Brave?

 

[Marko :)]

Very true. They just couldn't leave well enough alone.

BTW, what browser are you using? Brave?

Firefox. Switched from Brave a month ago.

 

[lokamoka820]

Firefox. Switched from Brave a month ago.

Firefox is awesome, I use it for 99% of my browsing, but you will need a Chromium browser for some websites that have problems to render in Firefox, for example Firefox always stop working when I read articles from this site:

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I get this alert in Firefox:

 

[Marko :)]

First time I'm hearing for this site. You can report it to Firefox team and they'll see what's happening. I bet it's some script going crazy over something. Weirdly, I can normally browse the site if I resize the window to smaller size.