Edge’s first launch setup is a straight-up fucking barrage of pop-ups and tabs auto opening. It’s ridiculous. I groan every time I have to go through it at work. It’s almost a shame because when edge-chrome first launched it actually wasn’t bad. Of course Microsoft couldn’t have that and had to fuck it up as soon as they could.
Plenty of people will fall for that, my mother rarely uses her laptop, so I installed Firefox for her. She got a notification telling her to switch to Edge, so she did. At least she told me so I could switch it back
last time i tried using it, it broke all pdf files on my system and eventually i also broke the open with menu while trying to restore it (well i restored the file association and made it point to firefox, but it seems like if you forget to set anything but edge before restoring the file association, it will break the open with menu permanently for all file types, causing it to crash explorer shell when hovered over)
I’ve been rolling out linux mint to some older family members. Firefox gave them troubles (they couldn’t identify the logo), but switching in chrome did the trick. I’m now convinced that the most common OS use-case is a browser launcher.
For sure. And increasingly so. I used to think chromebooks were silly but after this experience I totally see their value: 0->WWW as fast as possible is what people want
Exactly! However, in my situation, I was helping them out with some old hardware. I had to help so many times with Windows that I took a risk and offered to “update their PC”. The “update” failed because chrome was gone - but I “changed some settings” and now chrome “came back to the computer” and now it’s smooth sailing 🤣🤣🤣
I was always told to not trust strangers on the internet, but I guess if a multi billion dollar company is telling you something, you should believe them
Yes, let’s require setting a default value as to whether we use the default value. Maybe when Edge still isn’t as popular as they like, they can use a prompt to set the default value whether to use the default value whether to sue the default value
No, one of the two options there is “default browser” meaning the user likely already has a non-edge default browser set up. This is clearly Microsoft trying to trick users into using Edge even when they’ve chosen not to.
Absolutely. But MS chose to go the evil route again and ask right when you want to open a link. In that situation users want to open a link and not choose browsers so they are more likely to click on edge. It is deliberately annoying which is what op is angry about
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