[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If i uninstall it, it will undoubtedly nag me to install the new one, and one day something in Windows itself wont work.

I don't believe so, to either part of the statement.

I didn't use Edge as a web browser, only as a epub viewer, mainly when proof-reading/copy-editing. It had a shim (Edge Launcher or something) that provided the wherewithal to integrate into 3rd party software.

Fair enough. Personally, if it was my main usage, I would have checked that the new version using Google's Blink rendering engine still supported that usage before installing.

"bloat ridden alternatives" - all the epub readers that want to be a librarian too, all those that try to emulate a paper book, all those that have popups that hide the text, all those that take 'too long' to open an epub. Haven't looked at Sumatra for a while, last time I looked it wasn't as fast as its fans claimed it would be - sure it was faster than Acrobat, but so is a wet week. And it wanted to be the default for everything under the sun -- I'm not fond of Swiss army knives either.

The fact that something can be used for more than one purpose don't mean it has to be. I suspect most folks who get SumatraPDF only use it as a PDF viewer.

All Sumatra wanted to do was be a PDF viewer, but the underlying rendering engine also supports ePub and Mobi, so...

I was running a Firefox extension that could display ePubs in the browser, but the architectural changes in FF Quantum broke it. (No, not ePub Reader - the other one. ePub Reader insisted on keeping a library of ePubs you read in it in] the Firefox profile directory, and offered no option to put it elsewhere. Utter fail.)

I also have the original version of FBReader written in C around. It handles ePub, Mobi, FB2 and an assortment of other things, and can run in Linux as well as Windows. FBReader got rewritten in Java as part of work in a computer science course, and that became the base for the Android version.

(The Android version is no longer open source, but the Premium version is my standard eBook viewer under Linux. The win is number of supported formats. It handles AZS3, ePub, FB2, Mobi and a few other things out of the box, and can support PDF, DjVu, and CBR/CBZ via plugins. I prefer ePub, but for the most part don't have to care what format a book is in.)

And I'm not sure what counts as "too long" to open an ePub. I have some very large ones I don't expect to open instantly.

I'm using Windows Quicklook a bit, its lightning fast but the ePub plugin in particular has a rather clunky UI. Good for what its name says - a quick look, for epub proof-reading/copy-editing I am using Sigil's PageEdit.

I have Sigil and PageEdit here. I have little need to edit ePuib content. The main use for Sigil here is adding working ePub ToC to volumes that lack them.
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Dennis