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MS Edge browser wants really hard to stay (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by imgprojts@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Look at that shit! Before it was here are your two browsers choose! Now it's...how about for the letter A? Suppose a website starts with an A, would you choose Edge to be your default browser?... then you choose chrome or Firefox, and when you click on a link Edge Pops up with some shit like...Are you really sure you wanna use Firefox to view websites that start with the letter A?

Fuck Microsoft! Give us a fucking break you assholes! You are this turd of a company that is just stuck to company's assholes and that's the only reason any fly will ever touch your software.

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[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not just switching the default; have a go at removing Edge entirely, its a huge PITA.

You've gotta manually take ownership of Edges files, including its updater service, force that service to close and delete it, then finally delete the files for Edge itself. If you do that out of order, or you install certain system updates; it'll reinstall itself so you have to do it again.

From there some simple things like the news+weather taskbar widget and the start menu search will no longer open/function. (they ignore your default browser setting and forcibly use Edge)

[โ€“] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's annoying. I'm gonna hold off for windows 12 when the European union forces Microsoft to not be such an asshole.