And some nice added features. I use Edge over chrome for 2 reasons only:

- It has vertical tab support out of the box (is this even possible in chrome? I know Firefox can do it with extensions) - it has very flexible support for automatically sleeping and closing unused tabs. I sleep tabs after an hour except for a couple sites I’ve whitelisted.

Both of these are features other browsers either don’t have or require opening up a potential security whole to a 3rd party through extensions.

I take your point but I gotta say I trust the authors of the Tree Style Tabs FF extension much more than I trust Microsoft.

TST has a good feature set, but it is incredibly slow with a large number of tabs, to the point of being unusable on older hardware.

Sideberry has every feature of TST I ever used (and a few more), and is reasonably fast.

Ha! I just wrote a very similar reply to another comment. I use Linux in my personal laptop and about 6 months ago moved from vanilla Chrome to Edge because of the vertical tabs. The UI is really neat with the grouping and coloring. I also installed Tab Suspender because I didn't know it had the "sleeping tabs" out of the box.

So far it has been a superior experience to vanilla chrome, and at least in Linux I haven't seen any "adcrap". I installed Ublock Origin and everything is pretty neat.

> It has vertical tab support out of the box (is this even possible in chrome?

Vivaldi browser[1] has supported native vertical tabs for many years (possibly since its introduction in 2015), though sadly it doesn't get as much coverage in the media or in discussions. Made by the original Opera founder who left that company in ~2010.

[1] https://vivaldi.com

And Chrome is just Chromium with Google adware. I'd prefer people were using something else, but I would rather have them split between Google and Microsoft adware than all on Google's.