Advice Request Number of Web Browsers installed on your PC?

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Ink

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I have the following;
  • Internet Explorer is uninstalled - not used at all.
  • New Microsoft Edge replaces legacy Edge - for it's better privacy options and secondary browser to Chrome.
  • Google Chrome - stores auto-fill forms and passwords that can be used for Android apps logins.
 

Protomartyr

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Voted 3 since they are on the same machine, but one is in a virtual machine.

Windows
  • Internet Explorer is uninstalled.
  • Chrome is primary browser with add-ons installed.
  • Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is secondary browser with minimal add-ons in the event a site is broken in Chrome.

Linux
  • Brave- for stability, compatibility, and privacy.
    • Firefox came with this particular Linux distro (Pop!_OS) but was removed because it was performing badly in the VM.
 

Vitali Ortzi

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It's still broken (eg Bitwarden autolock timer not working) but sync is good and has builtin adblock.
Any slow downs or stability issues with brave?
As when I used brave some versions we're faster then chrome at that time then chrome was faster.
But ditched it after some time after they integrated Crypto #####.
 

Vitali Ortzi

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Seen a few ways to do from using shortcut flags to about flags but probably best one is the following

Display settings -> Graphic settings -> Choose an app to set preference: Classic App -> Browse -> Firefox.exe (Brave in your case) -> Firefox (Button that appears below the browse button) -> Options. I then chose Power Saving which makes your browser use the iGPU. High Performance would make the browser use your dedicated GPU.

better then any other alternative since an update won't break it, unlike every other workaround.
 

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