[Stratoscope]

How is Chrome a better browser than Edge? They are both just custom builds of the underlying Chromium browser.

I switched from Chrome to Edge on my Windows machine a couple of months ago for the embarrassing reason that I had so many tabs open that Chrome slowed down to a crawl.

(Yes, I'm one of those lazy people who uses old tabs as if they were bookmarks.)

Of course I eventually opened enough tabs in Edge that it slowed down too! So I finally bit the bullet and started closing tabs in both browsers.

Otherwise, I hardly notice any difference between the two.

There are bigger differences on my Android device. Edge supports extensions! (Yay!) But it lacks Chrome's "tab group carousel" at the bottom of the screen. Instead, you have to tap an icon to open the full-page list of tab groups, then tap the tab group you already had open, and finally tap the tab you want from this tab group. (Boo!)

So I went back to Chrome on mobile but still use Edge on desktop.

[LeoPanthera]

> How is Chrome a better browser than Edge?

I thought this too, until I actually used Edge. It's quite shocking how much advertising there is in it. The default content sources contain an extremely high proportion of clickbait and "outrage" journalism. It genuinely worries me that this is the Windows default. It's such an awful experience.

[Stratoscope]

That's a fair criticism, but aren't you just talking about the http://www.msn.com/ default home page?

That's easy to change. The first time I opened Edge, I opened Settings, typed "home" into the settings search box, and changed the "Home button" setting to "New tab page", which gives a nice simple page with a search box, like Google.

Is there other advertising you've seen in Edge that is different from Google?

[LeoPanthera]

Yes, it has all sort of weird promotional things in it that keep popping up. Price comparisons. Coupons. Things like that.

[fakedang]

Microsoft is so frickking dumb they still haven't managed to grasp why the Google experience was better than the MSN/Bing experience.

[caminanteblanco]

Have you used edge recently? It feels as bloated and ad-filled as yahoo news. I would take Chrome anyday, and I used to be a proud member of the edge fanclub.

[hackinthebochs]

Tabs Outliner is my solution to having an absurd number of tabs open. Should be paired with Tabs Session Manager as Tabs Outliner does occasionally lose all your sessions (like once every couple of years).

[nine_k]

Tangentially, there are extensions, such as "Auto tab Discard", that unload tabs from memory, thus avoiding slowdown or memory exhaustion. It allows to keep bunches of tabs as contexts / bookmarks.

[jridgewell]

This is natively supported in Chrome now: https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+memory+saver