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I might be confused, but I believe I started Firefox the other day, and got a prompt wheter I want to continue to use Firefox, or try Edge instead. I think it w
by captainmuon 10y ago
I might be confused, but I believe I started Firefox the other day, and got a prompt wheter I want to continue to use Firefox, or try Edge instead. I think it was not via a pinned icon, but via a http link opened from another app (default http handler).
I'm not sure how I think about this. On the one hand it's a bit sneaky, on the other hand it was pretty clearly written (click here to try a new browser, click here to continue using Firefox), and I don't know how you'd get somebody to try a new browser otherwise. Google hat at one point agressive Chrome ads on their main page. And Edge is actually a surprizingly decent browser, so if they ask me once nicely, and don't nag, I don't have a big problem with it.
I'm in the EU btw., I'm sure MS uses different approaches in different places. Replacing a pinned icon is really rude, especially since MS said this area belongs to the user, and no developer, not even MS, is supposed to change anything there.
- kyriakos 10y agoYoutube still has a bar on top of the page saying that youtube is best experienced in Chrome.