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by windowsrookie 968 days ago
It does still matter for people using low-end computers. My MacBook's screen cracked while on vacation recently and I had to buy an emergency laptop. I picked up a device with a Celeron 6305 and 4GB of RAM. I loaded up Firefox like I normally do, and it was so slow and laggy to the point it was unusable.

I then switched over to Edge and it performed significantly faster, and was using less of the 4GB of RAM. I was surprised at how significant the difference was, but there was no denying it. Edge performs much better than other browsers on low-end PC's.
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sfortis 968 days ago
Chromium (new) EDGE or OG?
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windowsrookie 968 days ago
Chromium based new Edge. I hate all of the Junk Microsoft has added to it. But if you are willing to take the time to turn it all off, it is a much more efficient browser than Chrome or Firefox. I'm not sure what Microsoft has done to optimize it, but on a low-end system it is very noticeable.
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