{"id":694,"date":"2021-09-13T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/ca\/?p=694"},"modified":"2022-06-15T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:06:07","slug":"which-browser-should-i-use-for-writing-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/ca\/blog\/which-browser-should-i-use-for-writing-online","title":{"rendered":"Which browser should I use for writing online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>If you want to make money writing on the web, it really helps to be internet savvy, and part of that is making sure your choice of browser is the right one for you.<\/p>\n<p>For us, Microsoft Edge is bottom of<!--more--> the pile for writers. One particularly annoying feature is that if you\u2019re pasting URLs from Edge to Word to create a list of sources used, Microsoft will think it\u2019s being clever by converting these into title tags. In truth, this is a puzzling feature \u2013 yes, it can be turned off, but why should you have to?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d go for Mozilla Firefox, with Google Chrome a close second. Chrome is great, but it can be a little too keen to nudge you towards Google features and agree to data sharing, whereas Firefox puts privacy front and centre. If you use an aging machine, it tends to perform a bit better too.<\/p>\n<p>There are other options that take the fancy of some users. Opera is an attractive and stylish interface, but is perhaps better suited to gaming and \u201cmessing around\u201d on the web than trying to work on it. 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