Getting my Edge on

2019-05-31T19:44:08Z

If I can figure out my issue with the program I usually use for uploading images to Flickr, I may post some vacation pictures here.

In the meantime, one of the first things I did upon arriving back home from vacation (other than kissing the ground and vowing not to get behind the wheel of a car again for awhile) was to install the new Chromium-based version of the Edge browser.

I like the old version of Edge; I don't know why it's so trendy to hate on it because I've found it very fast and reliable, and a miser when it comes to draining the batter on my surface. That aside, MS has decided to abandon the old one and build a new version based on the Chromium engine.

I've been using Firefox almost exclusively of late, in part because I want to give Google a bit less information about me. They still have lots of ways to mine it, but I'm not going to actively assist them.

So far, this browser seems to fill all of the niches I need for a browser. It's fast and stable, and everything seems to render just fine. My one quibble with it was that there was very small number of extensions for it.

That changed this afternoon when I was doing some digging on one of Flickr's pages, and it had a cute little extension for Chrome. Without thinking, I clicked on it and I got a pop-up letting me know that Edge will accept extensions from the Chrome store. Well, this changes things. I've got it set up with all of my usual must have extensions now, and I can set to really testing it.

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Getting my Edge on