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Been trying the new Edge based on the Chromium engine. Have noticed it uses a lot less memory when browsing Facebook than Firefox. Would often see my virtual memory peak at 15gb used when scrolling lots on facebook along with about 15 other open tabs. Edge with about the same amount of tabs and facebook scrolling seems to max out my virtual memory at 12GB.
When Firefox reaches 15GB VM it can slow down a bit, for example the reaction bar on posts is slow to pop up for selection. This doesn't happen in Edge but sometimes on edge changing pages takes a little few seconds. For example on a forum changing from main page to sub forum page takes a few seconds but reading posts is snappy as firefox.
Anyone else been using the New Edge?
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After trying everything else, I've settled on Opera.
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Yes its pretty good, probably one of the best browsers i've used.
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I use Chrome so I'm curious to know how it compares to that. I don't see many Chrome users switching over though.
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Only thing that is missing is DNS over HTTPS. That and the odd web page stall.
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I'm not a huge fan of browser-based DoH. MS really should stop dragging its heels and add DoT to Win10 though.
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I like how you can make an app out of a web page from the New Edge.
Tim
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I used a older version for a few days, but I didn't find anything to keep me using it compared to what I normally, which is Cent.
By all accounts Edge is very chatty
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Switched back to Firefox. Just the memory use that is an issue with FF.
Tim
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I was thinking of getting it, which will happen automatically soon I expect. Why did you switch back to Firefox? Problems in the new Edge, or just preferred presentation?
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It talks to MS too much, no DNS over HTTPS, random stalls between refreshes and the default zoom is too big. This can be changed but I will use it as a backup browser for sites that don't work in FF.
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DNS over HTTPS That's incorrect: https://textslashplain.com/2019/11/06/thoughts-on-dn...
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Yes but it's not easy to configure. On FF its just a box tick and select a server and away you go. I tried the command line for Edge and it didn't work.
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It's easy, just go here and set Secure DNS to "Enabled": edge://flags/#dns-over-https
https://i.imgur.com/Qh1vync.png
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Wow that WAS easy.
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Yep! It will use DoH as long as the DNS servers your PC has configured are in the supported list.
https://www.chromium.org/developers/dns-over-https
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