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I still use Chrome on most of my devices (mac / windows)
Once in a while I try other browsers and they all feel clunky and I return to Chrome.
I might try edge on Mac
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I had given Edge a try when MS first introduced it, before they replaced the rendering engine to Chrome - I couldn't get used to it, so I went back to IE.
I was just about the last guy to be using IE until they finally killed it for the...7th time? Then pages, even Microsoft's, started to get seriously broken. That was the end of it.
I never felt particularly compelled to let some random browser keep a history or build a profile. Microsoft already has that (and more), whether I use their browser or not, so I figured why not let just one company have that data instead of 2 (or 3 or 4 or...?). Try as they might, they still can't make a dent into the advertising business, and that suits me just fine.
Nowadays, even if going back to IE somehow became a viable option...I wouldn't. I've grown accustomed to a few things (basic as they might be) that I like: vertical tabs, collections, the way favorites are managed, having various profiles (so I won't be automatically logged into some work-related site unless I'm using my work profile), the fact that it now reliably reloads what I had opened after I reboot my system, syncing across devices...none of which was ever an option on IE.
To me it's more than a "good enough default". I don't know what a browser would have to offer to make me switch, given my "only allow data to be collected by the fewest companies as possible" policy.
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I read a while ago that DuckDuckGo uses Google in the back end.
The Brave Browser now uses its own search engine.
I also often use Yandex.ru on my cell phone. It makes a big difference.
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Quote: Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.
This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.
The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.
The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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ouch! 
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Isn't mayonnaise from the French?
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Spider Robinson wrote a Callahan's Bar story that took place on the 4th of July and featured four jewel lies. Is that any better?
(For the paronomasiacs among us, some of the stories have truly atrocious puns and tall tales)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I just saw this "feature" show up on stackoverflow (snapshot[^]).j
EDIT --> I think this shared image will show up: https://i.sstatic.net/IYvAfm0W.png[^]
I'm running the Brave browser (chrome-based) and this is a useless feature that is implemented on the server side (in the web page.
Have You Ever Seen This?
Have you ever seen this "feature"? It is very odd.
i'm probably going to switch from Brave soon, because it is so annoying and the only browser I've seen it appear in so far.
modified yesterday.
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what feature are you talking about, your screenshot is no help
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yes the feature is very odd and the screenshot is help.
See the top of the web page in the snapshot where it has a rectangle overlaid on the page and says, "Skip to main content"?? That is the odd feature that only shows up in Brave.
I've just switched to MS Edge on my linux box.
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Also, I see why the original snapshot was annoying. It included the imgur crap around it.
Sorry about that. I updated it so it is just the image. Thanks
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i use firefox so that could be problem
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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That didn't help. Now its just the standard "The image does not exist" message. Maybe you need to modify the URL in your original message? Or maybe it's not available outside the US, but I think that would be a different message from imgur.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Thanks for your help. Yeah, I can't figure out why the image keeps showing up differently.
I guess imgur isn't a good way to share images after all.
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'Skip to main conent' will show in Chrome to for most sites if you hit <tab> (and regardless of the existent a proper anchor)...
It seems that Brave adds a bar without the need for a tab... Have you checked configurability of that bar? Does it appear always or only if there is a proper anchor?
(Edge on Linux is an interesting combination - I use Firefox on my Fedora)
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." β Gerald Weinberg
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Thanks for explaining when it appears. I still havenβt discovered why it seems to appear in Brave so much & yet Iβve never seen this feature appear in any other browser - I also run Firefox quite extensively.
Now that Iβve switched to ms edge I canβt believe how good it is so far and I see that memory utilization under Ubuntu is lower too
Iβm also now running edge on my iPad and later I will install it on my Mac Pro laptop
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I've done some poking round.
AFAICT it's just some simple HTML and CSS, and browser agnostic.
Basically the first thing in the tab order, an HTML anchor linking to the start of main content.
Usually hidden offscreen until focused.
So, open the page, hit TAB and there it is. Hit enter and go.
It's meant as an accessibility thing for screen readers or folks with motor challenges.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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