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Edge is much worse than chrome anyway. Chrome just screws the user behind their back, with hidden tracking.

Edge has all the user-hostile stuff much more in your face. Like the shopping bar that keeps popping up with coupons or tries to get you to buy at a shop that pays more for advertising. And it tries to trick the user into getting bogged down with loans by offering buy now pay later schemes.

All the sneaky tracking stuff from chrome also happens. So why would you bother?

The only reason it's still popular is that companies love it because they can lock it down in full BOFH mode. At my work I can't even choose to reopen the last tabs anymore on launch. That and pretty much every other setting is "managed by your organisation"



Is Portable Firefox still an option, or is that sort if thing possible to lock down too now?

(I've only very briefly worked with restrictive Windows, and it was years ago.)

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable


It's not allowed in our policy. However Firefox is still on my system from the time when it was officially supported. I've heard they want to schedule a removal though.




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