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To: Moltke
Same, I had "legacy" add-ons, they are all hosed. "Profileswitcher" is gone, I am hosed. I had mulitple profiles or different browsing based on various interest.
4 posted on 04/30/2021 7:58:29 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: taildragger; Mount Athos; ducttape45; Moltke
Along with up-to-date browsers like Vivaldi (you can hack it to get multiple tab rows ) and Firefox Quantum portable (so you can also use legacy Firefox and Waterfox classic (most FF legacy extns work) then I use two profiles of Firefox ESR 59.

For unlike legacy Firefox ESR 59.9 with Tab Mix Plus and a few other extensions. which enabled more key customization than the whole of Edge, which the below critique is aimed at, other browsers of the engines suffer from missing most of the following features that legacy Firefox with extensions provided, such as, :

  1. You cannot make it show multiple tab rows (though besides Vivaldi you can with
    Quantum but it takes one [1]of the hacks. And unless the latter is a portable version, it cannot run concurrently with FF ESR since it will basically take it over).

  2. You cannot adjust max or min tab width. And the more you open the thinner they get, and all look the same. (except the active tab has an close 😵

  3. You cannot close a non-active tab by just placing your cursor on it the top right
    to get a X to click on (so unless you activate it, you need to R. click on it and hit close tab).

  4. You cannot enable different colored tabs as with the legacy Colorful Tabs extension (NOT the one in Quantum).
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  5. You cannot choose to open links in other installed browsers via right click.

  6. You cannot toggle btwn the most recently accessed tabs using the Ctrl+Tab switch (and its Alt+Tab alternative messes up switching btwn applications).

  7. Edge has a very poor spell checker and the dictionary is hard to find in the drive even if you could edit it (as you can with that of Firefox).

  8. You cannot create more than one profile (as far as i know).

  9. I know no extension that saves your text box posts such as this, like the Lazarus legacy FF extension did/does.

  10. MS does not make it easy to set another browser as the default one for all html documents and links (details too long for here).

  11. There is no option to keep the Find/Search bar open across tabs (handy in searches), meaning you need to do the search new for every tab.

  12. There is no option via right click on a tab to choose “Copy link.”

Since MS writes the software for Windows, than it ought to be able to create a real "utility truck" browser - and which I am sure would become a classic for "power users" - rather than just another minimalist Chrome clone.

However, although using the same engine as Chrome Vivaldi has more options,

13 posted on 04/30/2021 6:09:35 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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