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On Web Browsers


There are no good web browsers any more. Firefox keeps introducing new & improved ways to aggravate users with each patch. The latest item being an obnoxious "what's new" notification-style button on the toolbar, which pops up a panel on the right side of the browser window. Chrome has all sorts of phone-home attacks built-in, including the auto-log-in-to-chrome "feature" they added a couple releases back. Edge is now just re-badged Chrome, though I wonder if it might be a reasonable alternative. I suspect not, as Microsoft has its own issues with phone-home attacks (also called "telemetry").