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Due to problems updating my Nav VI I have updated my desk top and lap top from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
As a consequence I am trying to reinstall my original software (Microsoft office etc etc).
I have always used Google as my default browser. But since updating Windows 10 system keeps trying to push me towards their default Microsoft Edge browser.

Is it better or shall I stick to Chrome?
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Edge is pretty good and fast I use it for work stuff as it’s well intergrated with office online but you shouldn’t have any issue using chrome or firefox as your default browser.
 
The new edge is built on Chrome, it’s a good browser with lots of features and supports the full range of chrome add ins and you can just import your favourites. Or just go ahead and install chrome mate.
 
Chrome is a browser, not a search engine.

Yessss. What I was implying though is that using google as the default search engine returns more content than Edge, mainly through the amount of data it collects due to having more market share.
"In October 2020, online search engine Bing accounted for 6.18 percent of the global search market, while market leader Google had a market share of 88.14 percent." Use edge if you want and change the SE to google. I just like the simplicity of google. They're all getting my data anyway! lol
 
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As a consequence I am trying to reinstall my original software (Microsoft office etc etc).
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Slightly off topic - but good luck with that, unless it’s the cloud-based 365....
 
Yessss. What I was implying though is that using google as the default search engine returns more content than Edge, mainly through the amount of data it collects due to having more market share.
"In October 2020, online search engine Bing accounted for 6.18 percent of the global search market, while market leader Google had a market share of 88.14 percent." Use edge if you want and change the SE to google. I just like the simplicity of google. They're all getting my data anyway! lol

Not an advocate or one or other, as I use them both [often at the same time - chrome for personal tabs, edge for work tabs (better integration with M365]; but you can set the default search engine in any browser, AFAIK. You can also set the home page in edge to be google.com if you want. They are both built on chromium platform.
 
Opera seems to be a bit more lightweight these days

I found Firefox and Chrome "heavy and sluggish!"

I know Opera is on the Chrome platform but it does seem less "Mired and laggy"
 
I've been using Edge for a while now (since they brought out the new version based on Chromium), and set my default search engine, and home page to Google. I've found it to be really good much better than Chrome.
However, it has developed an irritating problem in the last 3 or 4 weeks whereby it deletes a large number of my Cookies when I shut down the computer at night. Not all of them, but mainly the ones to do with logging in to Social media sites, such as forums, Facebook, etc. This doesn't happen everytime, it can go days with no issues, then does it every day.
I've tried deleting all cookies so I can start with a clean slate - no good.
I've checked Edge's settings to make sure it's not set to delete cookies on exit.
I've checked all the programs on my PC that I think may clean up cookies, but to no avail.
Hence, I've reverted to Chrome to see if the same happens with it, so far, after a few days, all is fine.
Hopefully, I'll get to the bottom of it so I can return to Edge.
 
Yessss. What I was implying though is that using google as the default search engine returns more content than Edge, mainly through the amount of data it collects due to having more market share.

This doesn't make any sense :D
You can use any search engine you want regardless of the browser. Results will be the same.

As said, Edge is built on Chromium, so roughly the same thing. Nifty little browser, I used it a bit. In most cases it is just down to personal preferences (or Software compatibility as stated above, even though that shouldn't happen in a perfect world).

The discriminant here, I haven't tested it, is if Edge is less RAM hungry than Chrome in general.


chrome for personal tabs, edge for work tabs

Same thing.
I started using the Chrome profiles though lately, to stick with a single browser. Works very well. If you change the "skin" of the broser on one of the prrofiles it is even better as windows will be in different colours :)
 
Thanks for all your responses all helpful to me with my ludutianite understanding of the IT world :beerjug:
I have been reading up on office and things have changed since I installed office 10!
Probably going to go for subscription 365 as looks more future friendly and provides support.
Stupid question no doubt but what's the difference between search engine and browser, until I read replies above I thought that they were the same thing.
 
Browser: allows you to look at websites examples are Google Chrome, Opera and Firefox
Search engine: a website that allows you to search for websites with information using a keyword or phrase. Examples are www.google.com, www.bing.com

As for Office: you do not need to use 365 if you have a legit copy of an older version. Windows 10 will check to see if your copy is legit as loads of people were running dodgy copies on earlier versions of Windows. I have a legit copy of Office 2016 bought via my employers discount scheme for a tenner, which was originally run on a Win 7 machine. I am now running it on a Win 10 machine.
 
As for Office: you do not need to use 365 if you have a legit copy of an older version. Windows 10 will check to see if your copy is legit as loads of people were running dodgy copies on earlier versions of Windows. I have a legit copy of Office 2016 bought via my employers discount scheme for a tenner, which was originally run on a Win 7 machine. I am now running it on a Win 10 machine.

I had a ‘legit’ copy of Office 2010 - but Windows 10 went right off it.
2010 worked fine all through the noughties up to an including the W10 upgrade a couple of years ago.
Then it started to creak. Outlook became fekkin useless.

It was worth the £60 subscription fee - best money I’ve ever spent..... just sayin’ like.
 
Well, in terms of design, they’re almost identical. A lot of the old-school design elements of the original Edge browser are gone, replaced with rounder edges and cleaner interfaces. One noticeable difference, though, is in the default search engine and homepage. Edge defaults to Microsoft’s Bing, naturally, while Google defaults to Google’s search engine. Fortunately, either can be switched at will and is only a temporary nuisance. Edge and Chrome are both built on the Chromium open-source browser using the Blink rendering engine, and, as such, they’re more similar than they are different. These are both very fast browsers. Granted, Chrome narrowly beats Edge in the Kraken and Jetstream benchmarks, but it’s not enough to recognize in day-to-day use. Microsoft Edge does have one significant performance advantage over Chrome: Memory usage. Edge used 665MB of RAM with six pages loaded while Chrome used 1.4GB. If you’re someone who’s bothered by how much of a memory-hog Chrome has become, Microsoft Edge is the clear winner in this regard. Edge has more privacy settings than Chrome, and it’s much easier to track them down. Meanwhile, Chrome is limited to blocking third-party cookies. I feel more exposed by using Google Chrome, but, you can call it a habit, or a prejudice for Internet Explorer, I prefer Google Chrome instead of Microsoft Edge. At the end of the day, it's up to you. I would suggest you to give it a try and then you will have more data and experience to compare them.
 


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