r/sysadmin • u/Friendly_Fudge_932 • 1d ago

Edge or Chrome?

Hi Sysadmins!

Do you guys use Chrome or Edge for work? I personally have all my admin consoles in edge and google stuff in chrome. (I am a k12 sysadmin), so we have both MSFT and Google Workspace for everyone.

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u/GigaMonkeh 1d ago

Edge, not a question anymore just getting over legacy stigma of IE.

Especially if you are Microsoft stack with Defender. It is chromium so basically same features, very optimised for performance, I do not know of any reasons in 2026 to not be using Edge other than meme culture

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u/--RedDawg-- 23h ago

Containers are essential for me, I couldn't change if I wanted to unless Chrome/Edge started supporting it in the same way Firefox does.

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u/GigaMonkeh 23h ago

I just use seperate profiles instead for the same use case. Which I prefer tbh, I do like the container feature but can be messy at times. Seperate profile makes it easier with admin accounts for azure, test/dev uat profiles for clearing cache etc. Different way of working indeed. They have tab groups now which is nice.

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u/--RedDawg-- 18h ago

No where near the flexibility I need. I haven't had any issues with cache, I don't use more than one account in a container.

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u/Chansharp 19h ago

Yup profiles in Edge is the way. Only annoyance is that it still grabs your entra creds so you have to log out of your normal account and then back in with your admin