It's official. Microsoft pushes Google over the Edge, shifts browser to Chromium engine

The Register ^ | Dec 6, 2018 | Thomas Claburn

[Elsie]

Web developers have the most to gain.

They can expect fewer incompatibility issues, which continue to bedevil the web ecosystem.

As can be seen from caniuse.com, a website that shows which features are available in which browsers,

there's still a lot of fragmentation and quirky browser behavior.

 

 

[HamiltonJay]

MS Browsers have been crap on a cracker since the original IE... why anyone would voluntarily run them makes no sense to me.

[goldstategop]

I’m running Edge on the iPhone.

[daniel1212]

I am at Firefox ESR 52.4. It still allows most of my add-ons to work and has the classic GUI. I did run across a little program that enhances FF and the various renditions of it — FIREMIN. It seems to have taken control of the memory leaking Firefox has had since about version 0.7. I installed it a few weeks ago and occasionally check the FF usage through Task Manager. My FF memory usage dropped from 900meg to 15meg. https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/firemin/

I am at 52.9.0 (64-bit) with many extensions, and multiple installs and profiles, but with 16GM of ram than the use of that is not a real problem, and so for one profile I moved the cached data to RAM in the interest of speed. This does not affect the cached date of add ons, so that such a add-on like Session Manager works fine.

When RAM use gets to high then I just hit the Memory Restart button.

[SaveFerris]

Thanks for the info. This machine is 8gb RAM and Windows 8.1.

So.....

I need to fire up another machine but it’s been having weird reliability problems.

[daniel1212]

Thanks for the info. This machine is 8gb RAM and Windows 8.1. So..... I need to fire up another machine but it’s been having weird reliability problems.

Yes, 8Gb for a 64 bit rig is not enough (and 32 bit will not use more than 3.5gb) for running much more than the OS. Check event viewer (eventvwr in run command)>Admin events on the other.

[SaveFerris]

I’m maxxed out on this laptop. It was at 4gig and then I wound up with some more memory. I don’t think my other box is but 8 as well. My old Vista (ha) laptop is 2gig.

Maybe some day I’ll have money again. There are still guys around me doing Windows 7 builds I think. Haven’t checked them in a few months.

[Elsie]

When life emerged from the electronic primordial goo in Elsie’s basement; it had 256 bytes of RAM.