Unfortunately Edge and Chrome are now effectively identical under the hood, the only real difference is the shell that surrounds the rendering engine and the Edge shell has better features. Compared to the old native Microsoft Edge written entirely by Microsoft this new thing is a memory hog that for me at least is continually crashing my entire laptop if open more than about 20 tabs, right this moment I am pushing it and doing a little better than that but it won't last it will go bang soon
I have to admit I had not stumbled over the package any site as an app feature before. Or at least it worked differently before as I already had BritFil installed as an app but it just redirected to the Browser right now I am typing this in an actual Windows UWP app which is quite cool.
However it is a process and memory hog when you do this and will probably still contribute to the machine lockups given how they have implemented it, not sure after all that it is UWP I think it might be a variant on Electron.
In in the Task Manager view there are 13 Edge Processes needed just to run British Filipino as an app, as a developer that offends me it just seems really inefficient and more importantly those process have to use IPC (Inter Process Communications) which is complex and is very likely the source of the lockups in Edge. However I am going to try these apps to see if they are better isolated than the normal browser processes and to see if they are less likely to lock up. So far I've converted these : BBC News British Filipino Amazon iPlayer Gov.uk Covid site New Scientist Facebook
They are the same thing Dom, the code that reads the HTML and turns it into text and pictures on the screen is 100% exactly the same. And because of that they both share exactly the same problems now.
It is not just Edge that irks me and my desktop.pc. It is also the mother ship microsoft that continues in trying to insert Windows 10 at all costs. I am happy with Windows 7, but 10, self downloaded onto 2 of my laptops even after turning off the updates. Everything froze on both, to the point where I had to ask my son to re-install windows 7. but because I was silly enough to take the Curry's offer of cheaper (3 devices) Office 365 if I purchased a particular laptop (insurance job) I got landed with 365 coming with a yearly subscription of which I was not made aware of at the start. Needless to say, that I haven't been subscribing for the past few years, as I thought it was well too expensive for the limited use. But relentlessly, due to Edge, I get bombarded with renewal demands. It took ages to transfer my One Drive pictures and cloud documents to hard drive. Or maybe I got everything wrong............. Give me one of those anytime.............
I've tried to convince you before Dom that Windows 10 was not a bad thing, you share as much with Google and have your privacy far more intruded on by using Facebook than you ever do by getting a Microsoft account and using Windows 10. Windows 10 is far superior to Windows 7 indeed now that it is completely out of support Windows 7 is actually a danger to you as it gets no security updates whatsoever. Microsoft quietly kept the "free" upgrade to Windows 10 from 7 and 8 going long after their initial plans, it's 6 years now, it is a solid and stable operating system from a company that is far less intent on exploiting you and your information than the services like Google and Facebook which you access via the Windows platform. Microsoft has completely moved its focus to business, it does not depend on Windows the way it once did and it aggressively supports all operating systems from Linux to Unix through all the Apple stuff on it's Azure platform, it doesn't depend on desktop users nowadays. Microsoft Office has always cost about £400 to £500 for a full licence, I mean forever, that's always been the price for a single perpetual licence copy of it, because I work in the industry I have always had ways of getting it for much less than that as a Microsoft Partner but my own final perpetual licence copy of Office was Office 2013, I stuck with that until last year when I finally bought an Office 365 subscription, now I have to say that I get Office through the work these days I didn't have to buy it but I spent the money anyway because I now have my own Office programs on my own computers, up to 5 full copies on my own computers PLUS the kids get to legally have full copies of the Office suite personalised to them and I have 3 more full subscriptions that I could share if I needed, all for 79 quid a year. It's a phenomenal deal and it would take 5 or 6 years to cost you more than the price of the old perpetual licence and during that time you get the all the latest versions and updates. Regards OneDrive it is a sync mechanism if you are using it right you should have copies on your computers and in the cloud, having them only on your own computer is a huge risk. In terms of the Windows 10 upgrade it will not usually do it unless the initial scan of the machine indicates that it will work and the update can take an incredibly long time on older machines but 10 is actually a faster leaner Operating System.
