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I am pretty sure that you get the browser prompt to switch your default browser anytime you install a new browser (or any app the registers as a file or url han

I am pretty sure that you get the browser prompt to switch your default browser anytime you install a new browser (or any app the registers as a file or url handler). It has your current default on the top with the other choices below, I don't see what is so objectionable about it. Now the full-screen splash page is obnoxious. There has to be a more tasteful way to inform the user of a large Edge update.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago
What's objectionable? 1. I didn't install it. You (Microsoft) installed (actually updated) it. And because you chose to update it, you think that gives you the right to nag me again about making Edge the default browser? Edge was already on my machine; I already answered that question. Stop nagging me about it. 2. If I just want it to shut up and get out of my face, it won't let me close it by right-clicking on the taskbar. 3. It's slow to load, so I have to wait for it before I can get rid of it (or else use the task manager, which also takes time). Yeah, I'd call the combination of those things "objectionable". I might call it stronger terms, too.
- genpfault 6y ago
  > (or else use the task manager, which also takes time) Tried that, left an arrow pointing at the place on the taskbar where the Edge window used to be. Wouldn't go away without a reboot.
Thasc 6y ago
I wouldn't have been bothered by this at all (including the splash), if Windows hadn't reassigned Edge as my default PDF handler. Delving into the dark guts of the default programs settings, and finding a way to convince Windows that it was alright for Firefox to open PDFs even though it hadn't been installed from the Windows Store, took a far longer context switch than it deserved.
- vezycash 6y ago
  >Delving into the dark guts of the default programs settings, and finding a way to convince Windows that it was alright for Firefox to open PDFs Right click a file (a PDF in ur case), click properties. Click "change". Choose the default file handler for that file type.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

What's objectionable? 1. I didn't install it. You (Microsoft) installed (actually updated) it. And because you chose to update it, you think that gives you the right to nag me again about making Edge the default browser? Edge was already on my machine; I already answered that question. Stop nagging me about it. 2. If I just want it to shut up and get out of my face, it won't let me close it by right-clicking on the taskbar. 3. It's slow to load, so I have to wait for it before I can get rid of it (or else use the task manager, which also takes time). Yeah, I'd call the combination of those things "objectionable". I might call it stronger terms, too.

genpfault 6y ago
> (or else use the task manager, which also takes time) Tried that, left an arrow pointing at the place on the taskbar where the Edge window used to be. Wouldn't go away without a reboot.

Thasc 6y ago

I wouldn't have been bothered by this at all (including the splash), if Windows hadn't reassigned Edge as my default PDF handler. Delving into the dark guts of the default programs settings, and finding a way to convince Windows that it was alright for Firefox to open PDFs even though it hadn't been installed from the Windows Store, took a far longer context switch than it deserved.

vezycash 6y ago
>Delving into the dark guts of the default programs settings, and finding a way to convince Windows that it was alright for Firefox to open PDFs Right click a file (a PDF in ur case), click properties. Click "change". Choose the default file handler for that file type.