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Edge is the number one browser in the world for installing chrome.
by acollins1331 7y ago
Edge is the number one browser in the world for installing chrome.
- kabes 7y agoBecause google is any better? And engine-wise they're the same these days.
- hiciu 7y agobecause the rumor has it that "Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft" and we haven't yet caught google in such embarrassing situation
- Yoric 7y agoWell, by default, Chrome sends whatever you're typing in the URL bar to Google for auto-completion. No need to catch Google in such situation, it's a feature of Chrome.
- eitland 7y agoDoesn't Chrome send your entire browsing history to Google as well? Edit: I thought this was a well know fact and if it isn't I might have been to harsh about Google and Chrome. Edit 2: Thinking about it and searching a bit I conclude that IIRC Google at least used to have access to your browsing history as part of syncing it unencrypted.
- t34543 7y agoI would love to see a source for this.
- auslander 7y agoIt is not so easy to do this MITM trick with Chrome, it has Google certs pinned down. "For the transparent proxy to work, it needs .google.com to be added to the URL whitelist to allow all traffic to .google.com. This configuration is not supported because of Chrome security features that are in place, and we recommend that you avoid the use of transparent proxies." https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3504942?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3504942?hl=en
- occamrazor 7y agoThis link refers to Chrome devises, like Chromebooks, not to the Chrome browser.
- auslander 7y agoYou'll be getting "ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR". I could not find any posts on internet that were able to MITM and analyse Chrome to google.com traffic.
- liability 7y agoEverything you type into the address bar gets considered for possible completion, right? And part of that quite possibly entails sending it off to Google servers which take a stab at finding completions for it. Your claim seems plausible at least.
- kps 7y agoYes, there are some options under chrome://privacy/settings that suggest they send full or partial URLs: - Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors - Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar and then there's - Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors whose description suggests it sends more than URLs.
- TimTheTinker 7y agoThe upcoming Edge is based on Chromium. So you won’t need to download it a second time :-)
- i_am_proteus 7y agoChrome is the number one browser in the world for installing Firefox.
- zzo38computer 7y agoYou shouldn't need Edge, Chrome, or Firefox to install each other. If you know the URL of the file you want to download, you could use curl or wget. (Of course, that won't work if you do not know the URL. But hopefully someone will tell you if you are unable to find it on your own computer.)
- aembleton 7y agoDoes curl or wget ship with Windows?
- a_t48 7y agoYes, apparently - >curl curl: try 'curl --help' for more information >where curl C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe
- jodrellblank 7y agoNo; to get it without going through a browser you'd have to install Windows Subsystem for Linux as an optional feature, then download a Linux distro from the Microsoft Store - arguable whether that doesn't involve a browser, really. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
- jedberg 7y agoAssuming you're on a machine with curl or wget installed. I haven't used Windows in 20 years, but I don't believe it comes with either one by default.
- jodrellblank 7y agoInvoke-WebRequest, aliased as iwr, shipped in Windows as part of PowerShell for 6 years, will do it with no browser.
- w7 7y agoAs of some recent Windows 10 build (edit: 1803 or insider 17063+), curl.exe (need to specify full executable name not just "curl", which is aliased to Invoke-WebRequest by default) is shipped by default as well. I believe it came around the same time as OpenSSH. You'll also find a tar.exe binary.
- sundvor 7y agoIn my case it was Edge Beta, and Firefox. Haven't even gotten Chrome installed on my PC.
- myrandomcomment 7y agoSo stop using a browser from a company that has a source of income besides selling your info to install a browser from a company to which you are the product. Ironic, no? Not saying MS is not doing anything wrong, but the lesser evil I think.