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Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I installed a brand new Windows 11 on Friday and it's still the case.

You can change the default browser with two clicks, but if you go to the default file type associations you'll find a ton of shit still associated with edge, so that Windows can force-open it if you dare to click on anything remotely link-esque anywhere in the Windows Explorer.

Edge is ingrained into the OS like a virus that launches itself all the bloody time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

To add to that, even once you have a different browser fully set as default, links within Windows itself (Search, Weather, etc.) still open with Edge

This no longer happens in the latest Insider Dev/Canary builds to an extent, but I make the point anyway to show how anti consumer Microsoft truly is.