Software Optimization
You know how to get the most of your hardware—by running more software!
• Cost: 10 Karma
• Game Effect: You may run one extra program on any device you own. Gain a point
of Edge whenever you use that program.
Here's another abusable Edge quality, and ambiguity the GM will have to figure out.
Many programs provide ongoing bonuses: Signal Scrubber reduces your Noise, Toolbox improves your Data Processing, etc. GMs will have to decide how to apply the edge bonus with those. Once? Never? Any time its bonus comes into play?
You don't have to permanently link the Edge to a particular program, so you can reconfigure your programs at any time so the one you're about to use will give you the Edge.
Using Browse gives you two Edge every Matrix Search, one bankable.
Lots of abuse possibilities the GM will have to look out for: Configurator stores alternate deck configs, so you'd get Edge (bankable) whenever swapping. Exploit reduces the DR of a target by 2. You'd gain bankable Edge every time you performed an action against a target using Exploit.