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Is this not what chrom(ium?) has been doing since the very start (at least on windows)?

mox1 6y ago
this happened to me last night. I never asked to install Edge, it was part of some automatic windows update. Immediately after reboot, Edge goes fullscreen and pops up a unclosable modal window. It also puts an icon on the desktop and pinned itself to the start menu. Attempting to remove Edge via powershell results in errors and warnings about it being a required system component. So...a bit more than chrome.
- rantwasp 6y ago
  insert meme i live here now
- de_watcher 6y ago
  Can we start requiring legally tracing of the origin of these decisions? Someone has decided that. Why can't we have a name?
  - rasz 6y ago
    Origin was somewhere around this 1989 email: "You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app [application] would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS," ... "Is there [sic] feature they have that might get in our way?" and 1992 one: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS,"
  - dependenttypes 6y ago
    Microsoft did, petition to them to change their policy. Or... use a system that does not treat you like the product.
- catalogia 6y ago
  > [Edge] being a required system component. This sounds.. familiar.
  - Kipters 6y ago
    Both versions of Edge are used for webviews in native apps, removing it would break lots of them. Even not UWP ones, since both the Spartan webview and the new Chromium-based webview2 can be used in normal desktop apps too. For example, the auth0 SDK for WPF uses the Spartan one for login screens
  - ketzu 6y ago
    Yes it is very common: Ie on windows previously, Safari on ios, Chrome on Android. Or am I understanding it wrong? It's often integrated in UI frameworks.
    - jodrellblank 6y ago
      Read it as "Microsoft got hit with anticompetitive lawsuits years ago for making Internet Explorer be a required component of Windows ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... It is now very common, yes.

mox1 6y ago

this happened to me last night. I never asked to install Edge, it was part of some automatic windows update. Immediately after reboot, Edge goes fullscreen and pops up a unclosable modal window. It also puts an icon on the desktop and pinned itself to the start menu. Attempting to remove Edge via powershell results in errors and warnings about it being a required system component. So...a bit more than chrome.

rantwasp 6y ago
insert meme i live here now
de_watcher 6y ago
Can we start requiring legally tracing of the origin of these decisions? Someone has decided that. Why can't we have a name?
- rasz 6y ago
  Origin was somewhere around this 1989 email: "You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app [application] would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS," ... "Is there [sic] feature they have that might get in our way?" and 1992 one: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS,"
- dependenttypes 6y ago
  Microsoft did, petition to them to change their policy. Or... use a system that does not treat you like the product.
catalogia 6y ago
> [Edge] being a required system component. This sounds.. familiar.
- Kipters 6y ago
  Both versions of Edge are used for webviews in native apps, removing it would break lots of them. Even not UWP ones, since both the Spartan webview and the new Chromium-based webview2 can be used in normal desktop apps too. For example, the auth0 SDK for WPF uses the Spartan one for login screens
- ketzu 6y ago
  Yes it is very common: Ie on windows previously, Safari on ios, Chrome on Android. Or am I understanding it wrong? It's often integrated in UI frameworks.
  - jodrellblank 6y ago
    Read it as "Microsoft got hit with anticompetitive lawsuits years ago for making Internet Explorer be a required component of Windows ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... It is now very common, yes.