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Franc Morales6-May-24 10:19
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dandy726-May-24 3:32
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I had given Edge a try when MS first introduced it, before they replaced the rendering engine to Chrome - I couldn't get used to it, so I went back to IE.

I was just about the last guy to be using IE until they finally killed it for the...7th time? Then pages, even Microsoft's, started to get seriously broken. That was the end of it.

I never felt particularly compelled to let some random browser keep a history or build a profile. Microsoft already has that (and more), whether I use their browser or not, so I figured why not let just one company have that data instead of 2 (or 3 or 4 or...?). Try as they might, they still can't make a dent into the advertising business, and that suits me just fine.

Nowadays, even if going back to IE somehow became a viable option...I wouldn't. I've grown accustomed to a few things (basic as they might be) that I like: vertical tabs, collections, the way favorites are managed, having various profiles (so I won't be automatically logged into some work-related site unless I'm using my work profile), the fact that it now reliably reloads what I had opened after I reboot my system, syncing across devices...none of which was ever an option on IE.

To me it's more than a "good enough default". I don't know what a browser would have to offer to make me switch, given my "only allow data to be collected by the fewest companies as possible" policy.
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