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I used the love Google Chrome, so much better than IE when I switched all those years ago, but today when trying to open a pdf really struggled - has anyone switched found a good browser for the Windows 10 desktop?
I gave up on chrome a while ago, just seemed to get more and more resource hungry. Use Edge now and it's fine.
Firefox got their act together with the Quantum release.
Er still on chrome it opens pdfs fine
I've never really liked chrome, used Firefox for longer than I care to remember, never had any reason to look elsewhere.
People said Firefox had issues prior to quantum, if it did, I never noticed.
Certainly on the Mac, Firefox had a memory leak that meant you needed to restart it quite regularly. Don't know if current versions have fixed it.
+1 we switched over to Safari a while back and it's better than Firefox was. Though still a big CPU process needs killing occasionally.
I gave up on chrome a while ago, just seemed to get more and more resource hungry. Use Edge now and it’s fine.
That. Except I do sometimes use Chrome as well so I can stay logged into a few different Google accounts without risking messing things up
I can only either use IE11 or Chrome where I work so still mostly use Chrome. It does seem to hog system resources more than IE though.
Edge. Chrome went the way of Firefox and got bloated and slow. Massive memory footprint too.
Edge browser engine is virtually Chrome compatible and it's faster loading. Has a lot of extensions now and many of the key ones Chrome has. Though extensions cripple browsers.
Also integrates with Cortana and can do continue on another PC, or can browse with Edge on a phone and send it to PC (Edge on Android out of interest is Chromium engine).
IE! What antique OS are you using? đŸ˜‰
Try Vivaldi. Chrome based but sooooo much better.
+1 for Vivaldi - Chrome without the bloat and Google.
I always have loads of Chrome tabs open (currently 15 which is 4gb) but it doesn't cause any issues on my workstation. You can get an extension that suspends the tabs that are being used.
Firefox on my 2 x W10 PCs
Lightning on my Android phone
They all seem to do what they should, quickly, with no issues...
Safari on the Mac  It just works.  I love my Mac.
Helpful post No. 347 by andykirk.
Hmm didn't think to look for a Chrome extension to suspend tabs, will give it a go now (I regularly have 30-50 tabs open...)
I switched to Chrome when FF became bloated and slow but Chrome is also now heading/hedaed that way and I'm thinking of switching.
I've got issues in Chrome where it won't play some audio. eg in Google Translate it doesn't play the audio and also in Duolingo and some but not all YouTube videos.
Will start playing with some other browsers but I do like the way Chrome syncs my logins across all devices.
The only issue I have with Chrome, Windows 10 and PDF files is that Windows 10 keeps making Edge the default app for viewing them. I reset it, then a couple of days later it has changed back. Seems to be a known bug/design feature of Win 10. It affects other file/app associations too, always resetting them to a Microsoft app. The next step is to disable Edge.
>W10 reset Prefs
Your data is the product, the price of admission is submission.
>Chrome uses more RAM
Yes, even more now as they just implemented additional segregation of threads. It is supposed to be more secure, but you pays in RAM.
Uninstalled and reinstalled chrome and it seems ok now. I suppose also using android its nice to have the portability - just could not get the edge browser to port across to my phone.
Love the name of the tab suspender ' The Great Suspender' - worth installing just for the name.
Firefox still eats resources for me but that's OK, I have enough resources to feed it and it's otherwise great.
May be the reason;Â https://mashable.com/2018/07/13/google-chrome-spectre-meltdown-protection-uses-more-ram/?europe=true#aH7i73HvDiqM