It was surreal.Īll of my extensions worked as well as I can remember on Chrome. I was used to the constant ramping up of the fans while on Chrome, but on Edge, everything was quiet. There were not stutters and the fans didn’t ramp up as much. It also used way less RAM than I remember for the same number of tabs as Chrome. It felt like the old Chrome I knew, the fast browser that just worked. The first thing I noticed was that Edge felt smoother. You have to sign in using a Microsoft account, which is no problem since I already have one for my Windows account. Since they are technically the same browser, moving my history and extensions was a breeze. I then remembered about the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium and decided to give it a try. A few tabs in and it quickly gobbled up RAM like a hungry high schooler. About a month ago, I realized that Chrome used way more RAM than usual. I have 8GB of RAM (i know I know it is little) but in this instance, Chrome became a bother. Little did I know that everything had changed from that update when they released the general version.Īs we know, Chrome is a RAM hog. I still didn’t use it, until the day Chrome started bothering me. Months passed and Microsoft Edge based on Chrome was made as the default browser on Windows update. I tried the beta Edge web browser based on Chromium and I didn’t like it so I continued using Chrome as my main browser. Microsoft was basically making a Chrome version of Edge and it felt rather desperate. When I first heard of this, I was a bit sceptical. People seem to love Chrome so Microsoft decided to ditch the old Edge engine and repackage Edge based on Chromium.
Chromium is an open-source project from Google and you can use it to make a web browser. If you’re not a geek, you wouldn’t know that Chrome runs on the Chromium engine. Their next move was my favourite yet: they decided to make Edge exactly like Chrome. They introduced Microsoft Edge which was way better than Internet Explorer but people still downloaded Chrome. Developers also use Chrome a lot and it has made it almost ubiquitous. It has a browser share of 65% and by default, you will see people download it to use it instead of the default Microsoft Edge or other browsers like Firefox. These functions and many more made me switch and it has been my preferred browser for a decade.Ĭhrome is now the leading browser in the world and it surpassed Internet Explorer some years back. It was suspiciously good at playing YouTube videos than other browsers. Chrome extensions made Google Chrome extremely powerful and versatile.
It was faster than any other browser available.
Google Chrome was great for a number of reasons.
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