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Wow. You'd have to be either crazy or ignorant to still want to use Edge.
I adopted Edge when it started out as a more lightweight Chrome. After that I eventually just got used to it, like a frog being slow-cooked? And now I find it hard to leave, even though it's gotten more and more bloated. Edge has a really nice text to speech feature with natural voices that I use a lot. I've read a lot of books in the two years I've been using edge. If I could find an alternative with that feature that was also cross-platform I would gladly switch in a heartbeat.
It started as the no frills chrome, and slowly descended into madness
I think it is a lot of the latter at this point, tbh. Non tech-savvy folks that don't even think about the browser software at all, let alone know there are other options or seek them out.
Edge is/was(have read that windows fixed some defender issue) slightly faster than firefox.
But slower than chromium or brave.
I've used Chrome(Haven't yet tried Ungoogled Chromium on PC. Have used Bromite in the past). It didn't seem much faster.
Chrome generally felt faster on google services like Meet tho.
Not much faster, no. Still the same core, just fewer compulsory extensions like this Snoopy one.