Why I Stopped Using Chrome And Switched To Edge. When my last computer crashed, it occurred to me that I had been having a lot of problems with Google Chrome lately. It was bloated, buggy, and used a lot of system resources. I had dabbled with Microsoft Edge lately, and found that, being based on the Chromium core, Microsoft had made a browser that was faster, smoother, and less buggy than Chrome. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Microsoft has been spending a lot of time and money making a browser that could compete. I decided that my new computer build wouldn’t involve Chrome at all. While I kept the Google Gemini AI search engine, and still live in the Googleverse for email and calendaring, I liked the fact that Edge is designed to live in my Microsoft OS, and, so far, is a superior experience to Chrome. That is difficult for me to admit, since I have been a Chrome evangelist since the beginning. In recent years, however, Google has failed to be the leading innovator that it once was, and I am now recommending Edge as the default browser. I should note that I have not had a system crash since I started to use Edge exclusively. Knock on wood, of course.