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Old 01-27-2018, 11:16 AM   #231
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I'm partial to Firefox. It's going to be hard to.part ways when the time comes. Right now I just use five extensions but back in Firefox's Glory days I had it loaded down. It's always been solid for me till late last year.
It's been solid for me right along, and Quantum performs superbly. The big adjustment was migrating from legacy extensions to Web Extensions, but I knew I'd have to do that and set up Firefox ESR to allow me to continue working as usual till replacements for the functionality the legacy extensions provided appeared. At this point, enough have to let me switch.

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Chrome has always been a backup browser. I never trusted it.
And you didn't trust it because?

I have current Chrome here for testing, and it behaves.

But if you don't want Google's official release, you can try Chromium instead. Chromium is the open source code base upon which Chrome is built, and you can run builds of Chromium instead. This is a place to get them: https://chromium.woolyss.com/download/en/#windows

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Maybe someone new will come on the scene by the time Firefox make us update.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.

Competitors I'm aware of include Opera, based on the same Blink engine Chrome uses, Vivaldi, a fork of Opera created because the developers were unhappy with Opera's direction, QupZilla, an open source browser based on Qt Web Engine (which looks like Chrome to sites you visit), and Brave, a new entry intended to be a secure and private browser. The latter is headed by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CTO, and also based on the Blink infrastructure. It is not ready for prime time.

What you really ought to do is discover why Quantum performs miserably on your machine. You have the hardware to support it. I'm betting on underlying issues with Win10, and what I might do in your place is a refresh:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/348679/ho...h-windows-tool

The process performs a clean re-installation of Win10, minus any cruft that has crept is. You can preserve your personal files, but programs will be deleted need to be reinstalled, and settings recreated.

You have the sort of problems that used to mean reformat the drive and reinstall Windows and apps from scratch. Fortunately, it's better these days.
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