nilMicrosoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬If you want to open Edge without actually wanting to open it, just accidentally click on one of the advertisements in the main menu or any info area widget. Those ignore the default browser and always open Edge.
My new work computer on both teams and outlook just open edge with any links too ignoring my default browser preference. My last one obeyed like a good computer.
𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔There are links that use a specific “edge” link type that you can’t assign to other browsers without admin access. So if it’s a work computer you’re kinda boned
There’s an edge redirector app you can get which redieects edge:// links to your default browser
CileTheSaneone of the advertisements in the main menu or any info area widget
Okay, my biggest issue right with that has nothing to do with Edge.
guynamedzeroAt least it seems pretty easy to disable? From the way they’re talking about it, it’s just a single click on a big banner in the edge window. But still, come on microslop
artyomEven non-techies know how and want to install a different browser, how many decades more will they try this pressure fueling of their shitty browser?
In fear of playing devils advocate a little bit:
Edge is not a shitty browser. Ad-infested, controlling, overwhelming, disrespectful, annoying yes. But not shitty.
It’s chromium-based so it’s quite fast and secure (unlike Internet Explorer that everyone loved back in the day). I wouldn’t use Edge, but it’s a decent default if you’re okay accepting Windows antics.
It’s an opinion, don’t kill me. 😶🌫️
That’s also a fair point, in hindsight. I associate shitty to being insecure, slow, and borderline unusable. I have a middle of the road view on the privacy aspect because Chrome exists, it doesn’t care about your privacy but I think you’ll be hard pressed to call it shitty.
That said, I wouldn’t hold my breath and I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few months time Chrome comes with Gemini integrated by default. All your private data, straight to Google’s servers.
Edge quickly became my main browser. Its Tab Groups are borderline genius.
I do like vertical tabs too… But Firefox has a plugin for that so I’ve been using Firefox the last year or so and rarely have an issue.
Firefox has vertical tabs natively now, actually.
Oh nice, I guess I didn’t notice. I’ll check that out, it may have switched automatically with an update.
Yeah it was relatively recently that they added them. I wanna say within the last 6 months, but I could be wrong. There’s also tab grouping, now, I think.
Firefox has tab groups too. I don’t know if the implementation is any different since I’ve never used them in either browser.
Yeah, their quite bad tbh. And the colour options are horrendous.
Firefox has tab groups, tab notes, tab categories, vertical tabs
Only thing is missing integration with teams and outlook.
It’s a shame Firefox’s tab groups are quite bad at what their supposed to do and their colour schemes are quite obnoxious.
I haven’t used edge. Could you tell me what I’m missing out on?
I don’t use edge either. I’m comparing it to chrome.
On Firefox, for some reason, the tab and tab text colours are as if you had high contrast theme on. They are horrible to look at.
There are also a bunch of small, but over all annoying, QoL features missing. For example when you have a tab open from a tab group and you click the tab group to minimise it, it doesn’t minimise the tab you have selected.
Just small things like that. It just feels unfinished.
Until they started to generate slopilot labels for them. Because nothing is safe from the slop.
Might be. I have a cleanup tool that disabled stuff like that OS wide. I kept the Edge shopping assistant, because it did find me a few sweet deals early on.
cant do that on a work computer, its either edge or chrome.
puts on Microslop
Microslop promising to improve windows 11 and give users agency back.
5 minutes later…
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( ) Yes
( ) Remind me in 3 days
Who is windows for anymore now that you can run games on Linux?
thisbenzingringbusiness users
I can’t take an OS with ads seriously. It’s a fucking joke. And any business that uses it is a joke, too.
Just a vector for malware.
Unfortunately corporations are addicted to the micromanaging control that Active Directory gives to them. They don’t give a single flying fuck about the actual experience of using the OS, that’s a problem for the plebians, they care that AD let’s them do things like lock everyone’s background to a corporate approved image or force everyone to use Edge as their browser while disabling the password saving feature.
Basically the OS is irrelevant, it’s all about Active Directory.
Unfortunately corporations are addicted to the micromanaging control that Active Directory gives to them.
Try being a sysadmin in a decent sized company (500+ employees) and you’ll understand why.
Which, funny enough, Microsoft is thinking about sunsetting, because they can’t stop losing. Although they have very similar features with Intune.
I still don’t understand this. I’ve never, ever, seems an ad on Microsoft. Is it an EU thing? Finland thing? Why is it?
Admittedly the fact that they are ads is hidden better than most websites would. Recommended apps in the start menu. The truckload of things you have to decline on install like an Office subscription, Game Pass, etc. The settings app will occasionally have pop ups that remind you that you have a free trial. There are pop ups that cover the entire OS reminding you to “finish setting up your PC” with no option to say no.
Nope, none of these.
sudo apt install edge-browser
Make yourself at home!
Don’t worry, they’re at /$USER/$HOME
forestbeasts/home/$(whoami)
– Frost
Please use
$HOME instead of this. There are configurations that do not rely on the usual /home/$USER format. The root user is a good example, having their $HOME set to /root.
Oh heh, yeah, o’course! I wasn’t really meaning that seriously, more just riffing off the thread of silly $HOME expansions. :3
Probably good to mention that in case someone comes along and thinks /home/$(whoami) is actually a good idea though, hah.
(Mac has normal users’ homes in /Users!!)
Well… I’ve just checked out, and aside from unofficial Edge flatpak, there are official Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora repositories, I just don’t understand why would anyone want to integrate spyware web browser into their system.
Some men just want to see the world burn. 🔥