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Originally Posted by Blossom
You're not kidding. I tried to install a portable version but after going in circles over and hour I gave up. It kept updating no matter what settings I tried.
I finally found a portable version of 53 ESR and that worked. I use FEBE so all I had to do was copy a backup from last year into 53. So now I have 53 and 58. I prefer 53. It runs like a dream. I really do not like Quantum but will keep it so Edge doesn't get made default.
I use process explorer to monitor hogs. It helps track down leaks. It showed the extensions I was using causing the huge jump. The main culprit was Ad Block Plus switched to Ublock Origin and that helped.
I downgraded my graphics driver because the new driver windows keeps installing is not authorized for my laptop. Now that was fun. Windows and I went a few rounds but I won. Every time I uninstalled my graphics driver windows reinstall it before I could install a new one. Every time. I was finally able to uninstall, run the hide updates troubleshooter and stop the viscous cycle.
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I switched to Ublock for the same reasons about a year ago, if not two.
I haven't updated Firefox since 54.01, which was when I discovered that the guy who wrote the OmniSidebar extension and a couple of others gave up after trying to redo his extensions with the new API.
Firefox is still my default browser. The only things that use Edge are MS tools such as Weather, Cortana etc, which is fine by me. I've never liked the concept of a single default browser into which applications can stuff their URL's; for example the calibre server. IMO every application that needs access to an HTTP client (web browser) should have a user accessible setting as to which one it is
required to use, it would of course default to the system browser default.
If and when Firefox 54.01 no longer works, I will try to switch to Edge before looking at anything else. Twenty years ago browsers were of some interest, but today I'm prepared to use the one that comes with the OS, same with AV scanners, HIPS detectors, firewalls, even file system managers.
Last August I gave up on my 10+ year old home-brew system. For a 2-3 years it had been having intermittent chronic 'video card' problems -- BSODs, start up wedging, etc. Pretty sure the problem was in the motherboard PCi-E slot or beyond, because I could install a 'recalcitrant' video card in another computer and it would run fine for weeks; I also lost a couple of memory modules over same period.
I decided I couldn't be bothered building any more computers. One of our big banks has been deploying Dell Workstations for mission-critical LOB usage for a few years; their Chief Technology Officer (who once reported to me) waxes lyrical about them. So I got one of those, cost considerably more than a regular off-the-shelf system, but I didn't have to compromise too much on the build components.
Very pleased with it, main negative was the local delivery service, which took almost as long to get it the 7 km from Sydney Airport to my place as it took Dell to build it and ship it from KL to Sydney - 6600 km. Getting rid of the Dell bloat was easy enough, I can put it back for warranty claim purposes.
Its a bit light on doco, but what isn't these days. When I bought my new phone a few weeks ago, the young woman who helped me select it was puzzled by my query, "Where's the doco?" Her colleague looked across and explained was 'doco' was, she then said, "Don't worry there are plenty of videos on Youtube?" Being very grateful that, at my request, she was setting it up for me, including sorting out the sim card, the telco, and my google account I kept schtum and smiled.
BR