Raise your hand if you’ve used Internet Explorer in the past five years. If your hand is up, time to hand in your coolness credentials
Google higher-ups deny the sentience claim and put the engineer on leave for breaking his confidentiality agreement. So, whom do we believe, and the more important question, what does it mean?
I know, you thought it was gone already. Raise your hand if you’ve used Internet Explorer in the past five years. If your hand is up, time to hand in your coolness credentials. In any case, Microsoft has officially shut it down after 27 years. Not a bad run. Edge has fully replaced Explorer as Microsoft’s browser, and while it doesn’t have the ubiquity of Chrome, there are a few reasons it’s worth a second glance. It offers some new cool features and tricks, but it has the feel of Chrome, so you don’t feel like you’re making this huge UX leap.
Like me, you probably have a million tabs open on your computer. Like me, you also probably know that slows down your computer and Internet. It also drains your battery. Putting Edge in “performance mode” put tabs you haven’t looked at in two hours to sleep, meaning they won’t update in the background. They’ll only refresh once you revisit, which can save you a lot of computing power. The days of frantically looking for your charger before your laptop dies may soon be over.
Turn on performance mode by clicking the three dots in the top-right corner, and then click Performance, and select preference and schedule there.
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