What is it with Microsoft Edge ?

@helenS You are right and Chromium has its own bugs. It creates threads that don't die out even if you are not using the browser.

@SW-User I understood there are serious memory leaks.

@helenS Indeed, I was debugging a nodeJs app that was using Chromium to create PDFs from web browser to generate power usage reports for customers. I'm not a developer, but I do my coding to save money because paying a programmer costs almost an arm and a leg and I just started my business a couple of years ago. I found out how bad the utility is. It crashes or times out and doesn't collect the objects it has created. I was blaming it on node for not having the proper garbage collector, but I found out that Chromium is the culprit as well. I had to explicitly kill the chrome instances after every exception. Not an ideal way to do it, but it stopped the bleeding till I replaced it all with java.

@helenS Which product do you use? And how much is it monthly?

@quitwhendone It's called SurfShark. They are fast and reliable, and for some I reason I was able to order their VPN service for only $2/month, for two years (so I paid $24 for 2 years)

@quitwhendone Going incognito, means you're not leaving local crumbs/history. You are still tracked by any wen sites you visit. Some use VPN to obfuscate their IP address, but this trick no longer works on certain sites, and your IP address is only one of the things used to track you.

@helenS That's what i don't understand. And it's not like i haven't 'updated' the version of it either.

I recently switched out the router for a new supposedly faster thing having had trouble with the old one and that's been 100% more reliable at keeping a signal going where the old one would be in and out for periods of time all day.

@Picklebobble2 Do you connect to the internet via LAN or WiFi please?

@helenS Wifi

@NorthwestThe only reason i use more than one search engine is because i need to keep work related stuff including live accountancy packages updated regularly.
And i need a browser system to do it.

Ordinarily i'd use one for personal browsing and one for business.

@Picklebobble2 You don't have to use multiple web browsers. What you need to do, is log out and log back in using a different account, to keep your data/credentials separate. My guess is that the issue you're experiencing is not related to Edge.

I doubt the issue is related to your router as well. Even the slowest router, today, will still be able to handle all the traffic from a typical Internet connection.

@hunkalove Hard to tell though whether it's because of that (you'd think there'd be a pop-up note or something by now if that were the case)

@helenS yeah, but they do anyway if you have an Android phone. And if you with an iPhone, Apple know where you live.

@basilfawlty89 Yes Apple know where I live (I'm a customer, they send the hardware I order from them to my address!) but they won't sell my data to 3rd parties. Selling user data isn't part of Apple's business. They live from selling hardware (and, to a minor degree, software). Likewise, Microsoft lives from selling office software and operating systems. That's why I use MS Edge as a browser, MS Bing as my favorite search engine, and Apple hardware.

@helenS I know

@MarkPaul Not treating it at all at the minute !
I've switched to Google.