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It can all be minimized rather drastically...at least to the point where it no longer annoys me.
I get what you mean by Linux. I wish I could use it as my "real" OS on more of my everyday machines...
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dandy72: Linux. I wish I could use it as my "real" OS on more of my everyday machines...
I’ve been using Windows since Win3.0 and I always loved Windows.
However, as a person who thinks like a hobbyist I started to see what Linux was doing and especially how light and fast the OS tries to keep things.
Then I had an issue with some h/w in 2018 where Win10 crashed immediately.
At first I thought it was the OS bec I was annoyed and installed Ubuntu and it would only crash 1 time a week — yes, it was odd.
I finally determined it was a h/w thing but by that time I had made the switch to Linux.
I still remote to Win10 OS for work…but here’s the thing, the RDP software (Remmina) works way better than Microsoft’s RDP. You can have multiple connections to multiple remote desktops and they are all in one tabbed window. Why doe MS have such a bad sitch with tabs? Always later the game.
Also, in MS RDP you have to be fullscreen to send special keys (think alt-tab) but you can send special keys to remote from Remmina any time you are over the remote window.
Also, Remmina allows me to store my password so all I do to connect to remote is double-click the link in Remmina. On MS I have to provide password & credentials every time. Ugh.
Anyways, there are only two things I can’t run in Linux that I actually use:
1. Microchip studio (embedded s/w dev based on Visual Studio)
2. Steam games (which I’ve already bought under windows os)
but, I don’t do either of them on the regular.
I connect to VM Win10 to do things “locally” and Remmina for work stuff.
I’m kind of amazed because “THE YEAR of the LINUX DESKTOP IS HERE!!!!”
YES, I’M YELLING!!! 
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I use Chrome for most normal stuff like CodeProject,
Firefox for a most of the work related stuff,
Safari because for a specific work activity it is the only browser that works. You have to be on VPN A to access one system, in that system we have links to another application that is what we offer to customers. To access this application you cannot be on VPN A. Used to be you could turn off the VPN and then click the link to the application. That no longer works so you have to be on the page with the link, switch to VPN B then click the link to the application.
And NO MATTER which VPN you are currently on, you are NOT on the VPN you need to be to get the current task done.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Wow, that sounds like a complicated set of hoops to jump through. Keeps you slim and trim though. 
I originally used Chrome because it had such great dev tools.
then FireFox came to parity on dev tools and I switched over so my data wouldn’t be owned by one huge corp entity.  I was on Android at the time.
I also switched to exclusively using DuckDuckGo search in all my browsers. Glad it’s still a choice.
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Edge. I even put Edge on my Android phone.
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I use SeaMonkey for all websites that permit and chrome for all others. I don't change much. At my crotchety age I hate change.
This was typed on windows 7.
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Ron Anders said: This was typed on windows 7.
That made me spray milk out my nose!! And, I’m not even drinking milk.
And, I’m laughing with you, not at you. For realz. Windows 7 was fantastic.
I get it about not wanting to change.
Also SeaMonkey is a form of FireFox, right? I notice you said for things that it works on. I have discovered quite a few sites that FireFox won’t “just work on” too
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So far I have been able to block Edge from loading on my Windows 7 64 bit Work Station
but not on my Windows 7 32 bit Laptop
This dance is complete stupidity on my part
In Chrome I do a Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Clear Browsing Data
Then Open my IE pre-installed icon and Clear History then Safety -> Delete Browsing History
What I find Odd is if I don't clobber Browsing Data in Chrome
IE starts with info telling me to download Edge
I have been playing with SwissCows and StartPage
Search results are a little odd but because I started with Netscape everything is ODD
Entered on my Windows 7 64 bit World Class OS
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Firefox 95% of time. Sometimes a site doesn't show up properly and I have to switch to Chrome. And occasionally MS pops pages in Edge.
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Sometimes a site doesn't show up properly and I have to switch to Chrome.
This is very interesting to me, because I used FF for so long and I too stumbled upon sites that did not work with it at times.
Here’s the oddest one ever.
I signed into my healthcare site (UHC) and it would give me the error:
“You do not have a userid on this system, please create a user id.”
That is a terrible error. My user id was fine but for some reason FF gave that error.
I would sign in fine on Chrome. Very odd.
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I had one site simply telling me that my (FF) browser is not supported  Seems to happen more often on big, government sites. Probably people there are too busy to test on other browsers. You know how busy these public employees are 
Anyway it's not often enough to make me change browsers.
Mircea
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Edge for everything - developing, browsing, streaming. Chrome is too intrusive for my taste.
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On my work laptop used to exclusively use Brave until they locked it. Switched to the chromium edge, until they forced it to require me to login with my work account. Now using Chrome.
On my PC it has been Brave for a few years now. For some reason I dislike the feel fire-fox gives me.
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I use Chrome but because some of my professional work is on web front-ends I sometimes need to check other browsers and I will use Firefox and Edge for a quick check.
Also occasionally the Chrome cache stubbornly refuses to clear for a site so I will use Firefox to get a fresh version of the site.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I've used FF for decades (since before the getfirefox campaign, since it was still in beta, actually).
I'm not particularly happy with the way Mozilla is going with it, but considering that the alternative is to further the monopoly of a single browser engine, I still stuck with it.
Recently, I've heard good things about a FF fork - Floorp. Tried it briefly only.
It's about time that someone forked FF properly: Mozilla is a horrible steward, and spends all their money on diversity outreach while firing FF engineers. It's no wonder that FF went from 75% market share (pre-diversity initiatives) to around 5% market share (post-diversity initiatives).
You cannot even contribute money to FF development anymore (I used to contribute), you can only contribute to Mozilla, and they make no promises about what they use your contribution for.
Download - Floorp[^]
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Back in high school, which is about 20 years ago, I switched from IE to Firefox.
A few years later I switched to Chrome and I'm still using it today.
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Rarely. 99% of the time I use Chrome, but will switch to Edge when I need to not be signed in to something. (Chrome keeps all my passwords and logins, Edge I never save anything. There are times when I need to be logged into two different accounts simultaneously, and so using two browsers is helpful). I do have FF installed and had to use it just last week when I got a bug report for one of my public sites. Turns out FF doesn't handle javascript: protocol in links the way that everybody else does; it executes the code then displays any object resulting from that code, normally [Object object], as the entire content of the page. Don't know who's doing it wrong, FF or the rest of the world, but it was a quick fix so don't care.
Not keen on Edge when I've used it, but that's possibly because I've never bothered spending time configuring it how I like - don't even know if it can be done. I work on a laptop screen 100% of the time so its default big blocky URL bar and tabs just waste space for me. Its debug tools aren't what I'm used to so are slower for me to use. Just inertia, really.
And that's basically the reason I don't often change browsers!
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Thanks a ton for posting that.
I searched for any related news and couldn't find it.
I'm always interested in root causes of issues like this one.
It's quite terrible because my machine would lock but I could still hear video playing in the background but once it locks like this there is no escape.
A long, long time ago on an OS far away (NT 4.0) I had a graphics problem that occurred the same way.
The graphics would freeze making you think the machine was frozen but it was just the graphics card so I thought it might be something like that.
Thanks again.
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Rarely. I use Firefox since version 4. I moved to Brave in my current company since out proxy filters out every request not coming from Chrome, and changing the presentation string in Firefox gave me some rendering issues.
On my phone I use Brave as Firefox tended to cook my battery and it doesn't support add-ons on mobile, Brave at leas does a minimum of ad-blocking.
Sometimes I use Brave if Adblock is detected and a page refuses to load.
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I have most web browsers installed so I can test, even though most are Chromium these days... Half the icons on my task bar are web browsers, both Windows and MacOS.
I'm actually enjoying "Opera One developer". It has a few extra features baked in that other Chromium browsers don't.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Graeme_Grant wrote: I have most web browsers installed so I can test
Ditto. Professionally, my group develops on Edge as that is the organization standard, and it works fine. We test on Chrome and Firefox.
The ancient application we replaced a year+ ago ran ONLY on IE (yeah, it was that old) and pre-Win10, the org standard was IE. We cheered when that changed, and cheered again when the customer agreed we didn't need to support IE!!!
On my Android phone I use DuckDuckGo, and occasionally Bing. I don't use Chrome for anything. On my personal PCs, I use Vivaldi (Chrome clone) as my primary, with Edge and Firefox installed and used occasionally. I don't have Chrome installed.
It's weird, but I trust Microsoft more than Google. This doesn't mean I trust MS; rather that I see MS as the lesser evil, even if not by much.
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Graeme_Grant wrote: I'm actually enjoying "Opera One developer".
It's good to hear someone mention Opera.
I used it quite extensively back in 2010-2012 time period, but then there was one site (probably my most important site) where it wouldn't work. Oreilly.com (where I'm a subscriber to tech books online). At the time it wouldn't render books properly and I couldn't read in Opera so I gave up on it.
I need to try it again, because I did like the browser quite well.
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I switched to Opera couple years ago, never looked back.
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Very few people mention Opera.
I used it back in 2010-2012 quite extensively but it didn't support one important site (oreilly books) for me and I gave up on it. It was a really nice browser even then. I need to try it out again.
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