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chungweileong
Brass Contributor
Mar 17, 2022

Microsoft Edge is getting heavy by the bloated features

I love the browser ever since it first came out as a new chromium-browser. However, the browser is getting bloated by a bunch of features that most people don't need, and don't get me wrong here,  I do think some of the features can be useful to certain users out there, but if you look at the recent "buy now pay later" feature, it definitely not useful to the majority of the people, as the feature is only working on certain countries.

 

Personally, I really think most of the features can serve as an extension instead, so users can remove the feature/extension if they don't need it. If you ever look at the edge browser app size (on macOS), it's approx 600MB right now, compared to chrome 400MB, that's crazy. And not to mention, the browser is getting super unstable recently on macOS & Linux.

 

Overall, I personally feel like the edge is pretty much a browser with bunch of ads, literally. I really hope that the team can do something to improve it, but for the time being, I'm just going to move away from the browser for a while.

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    cazafurcias42
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 17, 2022
    Yeah well all that initial propaganda of being a lightweight chromium-based browser was just the strategy to get us engaged with the development. Now, as you mentioned we are stuck with a ad-based browser with 50% of features nobody uses and are just there to sell us unnecessary stuff. At this point, is just better to use chrome, at least is stable, better optimized and even consumes less resources than edge.
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      chungweileong
      Brass Contributor
      Mar 17, 2022
      Yeah, typical Microsoft movement. But it surprised me that chrome actually consumes fewer resources than edge, back then people keep saying chrome is a memory hog, but it does seem like the case anymore, at least based on my usage.
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    Laicure
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 19, 2022
    This is true. I was supposed to shift my whole family to use Edge from Chrome but every update seems like they are adding a bunch of borderline-useless features.
    So, I just completely removed Edge instead using admin command prompt (you can just google it) and make Google Chrome the default for all valid browser protocols.

    I just miss the native editing of PDF files, built-in screenshot tool, some optimizations like the use less resources thing when unplugged/low battery and... yup, only those.