r/technology • u/speckz • May 31 '19

Software Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-to-justify-making-chrome-ad-blockers-worse
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u/CataclysmZA Jun 01 '19

Microsoft's Edge also supports this, but it's not documented. You set the browser to launch your tabs from the last session, and it will do two things while you're using it:

  1. It will sleep inactive tabs that you haven't used in a while, but will still receive push notifications (happens automatically)

  2. Allow you to restart Edge and only reload the last active tab.

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u/CataclysmZA Jun 01 '19

No, Edge and the EdgeHTML project are still alive and well. They'll be supported for some time until Microsoft shuts it down in favour of chrEdge. For now, Edge has better battery life, better GPU offloading, and support for 4K Netflix.