Browser features

[The_Arbiter]

I'm just setting up Edge as another browser for a different device and it's a pain, just like last time. So many features and options that don't customise what i want customised, and newly introduced features that i have zero interest for.

I read an article the other day that Chrome is introducing a trial of AI tab grouping. Chrome will auto group tabs for you. The problem i see outside of mistakes and poor grouping is encouraging an untidy experience. When you reach 20,50,100 tabs even, it's time to delete! Tab grouping i see hiding the mess and causing lots of havoc, isn't that what bookmarks were supposed to achieve. Bookmarks i guess got forgotten when sleeping tabs and history bar became a given.

Extensions for general shopping websites? What is this? Please leave my browser alone, it works fine as is. Or at least it did untill features like download bar were ******* removed.

Is it a race to the bottom with browsers? Is there some master plan? Is this just the natural development cycle of needless bs known as capitalism? Nope, i'm just getting slightly aged

What are peoples thoughts on the world of browsers today?

 

[andshrew]

I don't have a problem with Edge for the most part, but there are times I start up a stock installation of it and the amount of junk that is enabled by default starts to give me flashbacks of the era of Internet Explorer 6 laden with third party toolbars.

 

[The_Arbiter]

I don't have a problem with Edge for the most part, but there are times I start up a stock installation of it and the amount of junk that is enabled by default starts to give me flashbacks of the era of Internet Explorer 6 laden with third party toolbars.

Jeeze, i forgot about them. Though Android and Windows are trying their hardest to make search bars centre of attention again.