I hate Google but I use Chrome because it's always been the fastest browser I've used. I use the Duck Duck Go extension that's supposed to limit to eliminate tracking. Not sure how effective that is, but it's worth a try. I've tried using Firefox but they want me to answer too many questions to set things up and I just want to browse. I don't use Ede because I hate everything Microsoft. And, I've tried Opera but it seems to default to a foreign language after installing and I can't decipher it in order to set it up because I can't find a "translate to English" option like Chrome has. Duck Duck Go now has their own browser, which I really like once loaded, but it takes about a minute to start up and by then I forget what I wanted to search for, lol...
However, for about the past 6 months, Chrome undated itself and now has an auto refresh feature that p!$$es me off. Whenever I'm in the middle of reading or writing something, Chrome auto refreshes itself and I either lose my subject in a live feed website, or it erases what I'm writing because I didn't save it, which is impossible to do because it refreshes without warning. Last week I was writing a post on the forum that was taking a long time to think about, then Chrome auto refreshed and I lost everything. Google says they do it as a convenience because they want to make sure you're viewing the most recent information. They obviously think I'm to stupid to accomplish this on my own. From what I can tell, there is no way to turn this off other than to click a bunch of web links that only work for the immediate browsing session. If you change websites or open a new browser, it starts all over again.
What do you all use to browse the internet on a Windows PC? Or, does anyone know how to turn off the auto refresh garbage in Chrome?
Go to this link in the google store and download the second extension see how that works.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/se...auto%20refresh
once installed the last option is the stop auto refresh
Just Call Me Chuck
Disclaimer : I am an old man and all this information is from the top of my head so any mistakes noted I claim the 5th