2026-04-23

Choice of Web Browser

I have been using the Google Chrome web browser forever.  It is fast and it can handle many open tabs very well.  Chrome works so well that other browsers like Microsoft Edge use essentially the same code.  They can do this because Chrome is an open source project.  So until recently, there was no reason to use anything other than Chrome.

I have a brand loyalty to Google because I'm trying to learn how to use Google's computer language called Flutter.

I've become fond of the Chrome feature that will read aloud a website or a selection.  I can do something else while it reads an article to me, or I can have it read aloud something I wrote which helps me to proofread it.

However, lately this feature on Chrome has become buggy.  It will read stuff other than what I selected, or sometimes not work right.

However, this feature works so well on Microsoft Edge that I've made Edge my default web browser.  It doesn't matter much, since both browsers are on my taskbar and I can use either one.

I had too many tabs open on startup on Chrome.  I did this for convenience, but Edge can't handle the workload and freezes up.  So I reduced the number of startup tabs on both browsers.

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com

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