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Working normally for me...

pitdogg2 wrote: »

it comes and goes Drew. It was happening to me a few weeks ago and about a month before that... frustrating for sure. I use Windows edge so a click and I'm signed back in I do not need to keep typing it anyway.

Edge sucks just like IE. Microshaft is replacing it with a custom version of Google Chrome in an upcoming upgrade. Google will now be baked in to Windows. It's 1984 all over again.

FWIW I find Edge to be much better than I.E.

Don’t like Chrome either because of the way Google try to force you to sign up to everything Google, and also because it’s basically an information gathering machine for targeted advertising. The other browsers have caught up to Chrome in their minimalist space saving design for laptops, which had been the main attraction of Chrome for me, but that was ten years ago.

Sometimes use Opera instead of Chrome on anything running Windows. It has the same engine, without the Google crap if you don’t want it. Even the integrated Google search box from the home screen can be removed.

mhardy6647 wrote: »

There's always Mozilla/Firefox

Vastly improved IMO, and a very good browser, but... they too are increasingly attempting to coax users into signing in for “more functionality”.

Of all of these options, Opera (once modified to remove Google), Vivaldi, Edge and Safari are the least intrusive IMO. Chrome is by far the most intrusive of all.

Ubuntu and Mint (and others, including Puppy) are absolutely amazing operating systems, and you can use Chromium instead of Chrome, but... there is just too much now that requires curated oversight if one wants full functionality. It’s one of the main reasons I switched to Mac O.S. instead of Linux (but still have to use Windows for professional activities sometimes). Mac O.S. offers all of the stability of Linux, and ease of update, without the disadvantage of the occasional hiccup that one has to troubleshoot for one’s self in Linux systems. Windows offers the worst of both worlds IMO (no stability, increase virus risks, updates that eventually fail at some point).

Firefox is no longer slow. That was possibly in large part due to Flash problems, that mostly ended a few years ago, but all browsers suffer from Flash issues in different ways. Until recently, I was using proprietary software that required Flash on a regular basis, so I was able to test the abilities of all of the main browsers known to man on a recent installation of W7 and W10. Off all of the browsers in use today for Windows, Firefox seemed to do the best job of managing vast requirements of RAM without crashing. No other could match it.

Safari has been very satisfactory on all fronts so far, but requires iOS or Mac O.S.

westmassguy wrote: »

The only thing I like about Chrome, is the sync feature. My work station, media center and laptops all have the same favorites, passwords etc.
I do NOT use Google's search engine on any browser. I've been using DuckDuckGo for several years.

You know Mozilla Firefox has the sync feature too. It works between mobile and desktop, just like Chrome. You can also import everything from Chrome if you are worried about passwords, etc.

After repeated stories and articles about how Chrome allows dozens or hundreds of trackers to run in the background, I have decided to move completely to Firefox (which disables trackers by default). About a year ago, Firefox had some major updating and I feel it is just as fast as Chrome or Edge now. Yes, there are some occasional upsells, but they are easy enough to dismiss. Mozilla is the only one that seems to care about privacy.

billbillw wrote: »

westmassguy wrote: »

The only thing I like about Chrome, is the sync feature. My work station, media center and laptops all have the same favorites, passwords etc.
I do NOT use Google's search engine on any browser. I've been using DuckDuckGo for several years.

You know Mozilla Firefox has the sync feature too. It works between mobile and desktop, just like Chrome. You can also import everything from Chrome if you are worried about passwords, etc.

After repeated stories and articles about how Chrome allows dozens or hundreds of trackers to run in the background, I have decided to move completely to Firefox (which disables trackers by default). About a year ago, Firefox had some major updating and I feel it is just as fast as Chrome or Edge now. Yes, there are some occasional upsells, but they are easy enough to dismiss. Mozilla is the only one that seems to care about privacy.

FireFox started out light and fast, and then got bloated and slow like other browsers. I'll have to check it again.