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All these features are probably very useful but I think they make the browser unnecessarily bloated. I think the way chrome does it is better because it has a simple browser with features easily added with extensions.

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Fair assessment. Where this works well for us in a K12 environment is that we have to restrict installation of extensions, so any extensions we allow have to be curated. In the read aloud example in particular, we had a variety of teachers who all liked different read aloud extensions, so we ended up supporting about a half dozen Chrome read aloud extensions. Since the extensions are provided by third party developers, we had to research the reputability of the publisher. In one case, we allowed a read aloud extension that 2 years later had a malicious change introduced by the developer that took over Chrome's search engine settings and clickjacking our students and teachers to a skeezy search engine. In terms of the bloat effect in Edge, it was very real in pre-Chromium Edge. If you haven't tried Edge in a year or two, it's definitely a different and much more refined tool than it was when Edge first launched. Definitely worth downloading the newest version and giving it a spin!

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