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Re: MS Edge was never useful but at least it had worked for Copilot but what AI/LLM now?

From	"Alan K." <alan@invalid.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject	Re: MS Edge was never useful but at least it had worked for Copilot but what AI/LLM now?
Date	2026-08-26 16:27 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<116ni78$ui00$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 8/26/26 2:02 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
> MS Edge has never been useful so I used it solely for Copilot AI/LLM.
> But that died a few weeks ago in terms of no-registration searches.
> 
> I've since then updated my MS Edge taskbar-pinned target to open these.
> 
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory=Default edge://settings/privacy/clearBrowsingData https://gemini.google.com/app https://chatgpt.com/ https://www.perplexity.ai/ https://duck.ai/ https://plai.chat/
> 
> Where the use model is if I need to look up something, using natural
> language terms, I pop open the MS Edge icon pinned to the taskbar.
> 
> And then I ask something like:
>   "Why do people buy cellphones that have no sd card slots?"
>   "Why do people put premium gasoline into a Honda Civic?"
>   "Is the boron in laundry product the same as in the ant bait?"
>   etc.
> 
> When one AI/LLM times out, I move to the next tab, and so on.
> Sometimes I even ask all the tabs the same question, if it's complex.
>   "Why do people think pH has any major effect on pool chemistry?"
>   "What is the closest analogy to the illegal war in Ukraine?"
>   "What does Windows 10 not do that Windows 11 does that's useful?"
>   etc.
> 
> Then I can have the answers from one AI/LLM rebut those of the other.
> But I only do that for deep serious technical queries, as it's costly.
> 
> My question for the group is what other free no-registration AI/LLMs
> can we add to the otherwise useless MS Edge web browser invocation?

I use copilot but not enough to be concerned about.   I do some days get into a long Q&A 
with it and get kicked out 'you've hit your limit for one day'.   Good thing is I can pick 
up tomorrow, but this is like 1 in 8 sessions.

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     Alan K.

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