What about when you run the other browsers you say you’ve tried? Does any browser use 100% CPU?
If Edge were actually the source of the problem, it shouldn’t have continued when you killed Edge and ran another browser. Just to be really sure, make sure all the Edge processes are no longer showing up in TaskManager, before you launch another browser. If they’re still hanging around in the background, you can end task them. Or, just reboot the machine before launching whatever browser.
If you’re still having problems even with no Edge process running, then you’ve ruled out Edge as the culprit.
Just tried for science and nostalgia reasons, and the SD main page and boards work fine, they are mostly text after all. It doesn’t cope at all well with Youtube, unsurprisingly.
When SDMB freezes up, I often find that I’ve got an invisible pop-up covering the part of the screen I’m trying to click on. (Of I’ve just been browsing too long, and Chrome / Firefox have taken so much memory there’s non left).
The Straight Dope and Straight Dope Message Board do indeed work with Lynx, and I sometimes use it to read the boards. Though these days I prefer its smarter, sleeker cousin, Links.
I suggest that your problems go beyond the selection of browser. I have never had a browser want a ‘second device’ to… do anything. It’s not like these are licensed apps needing validation or a key or whatever. A new browser should be able to suck the bookmarks list simply by being pointed to it - it’s just an HTML file. Or you can export it and import it in Chrome or Firefox. Edge shouldn’t have to “play nice” with a new browser in any way.
Glad to hear it - now, run a full scan with Windows Defender (or the AV of your choice) and install Malwarebytes Free and run that as well. It should not have been that hard, and that makes me suspicious. At least a couple of other adblock extensions on Edge worked fine for me (AdBlock and AdBlock Plus); I don’t know if you tried those, but I had no trouble installing and running them.
That said, I gather AdBlock Plus (IIRC) accepts money to whitelist certain companies; maybe that was the problem.
Still, the occasional full scan with Defender and Malwarebytes is easy, and cheap insurance.
I like how you just automatically assume the problem lies with Microsoft, and not with shitty ad networks who inject bloated script-laden ads into the pages you view.
Trust me, I’ve been running Linux on the laptop on which I am typing this for a long time, and I can tell you flat out Linux is not a fucking panacea for this bullshit. Not only are web browsers susceptible to the same issues as they are running on Windows, they also have lower performance overall.
You want to complain! Look at these shoes. I’ve only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through. If you complain nothing happens, you might as well not bother. Oh, my back hurts, it’s not a very fine day and I’m sick and tired of this office.
Probably what happened is that Chrome wants him to sign in/set up his google account/gmail address. And their new special sauce is that you don’t sign in with a username/password, instead you have two factor authentication using your phone.
But you don’t have to do this, it’s perfectly possible to run Chrome without signing in and letting Google track you. I mean, they’re going to track what you browse, but they’re not connecting browser session A on device B and browser session C on device D unless you sign in.