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@ocdtrekkie: “Pretty sure the user is wrong about what caused this dialog. It was the recent Firefox update.” Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would

@ocdtrekkie: “Pretty sure the user is wrong about what caused this dialog. It was the recent Firefox update.” Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;]

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
> Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;] It didn't. The person who posted this didn't read the screen, and fundamentally misunderstood it. The title of the post is wrong. You'll notice that the dialog is asking "How do you want to open .pdf files from now on?" Because Firefox can now be set as a default PDF reader, Windows has a new PDF reader option, so it asks the next time the user tries to open a PDF. (And this has nothing to do with being the default web browser or not.) Next, the user also incorrectly assumed this had set the default to Edge. This is again, because they didn't read. Microsoft has broken out the "Featured in Windows 10" option from the "Other options". But it's asking, it hasn't made a change yet.
- capableweb 6y ago
  As mentioned in my previous comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374147), I was also affected by this. Saw the popup first when I clicked on a link in Discord, and Firefox was not updated (I'm doing those updates manually), only new thing from the Windows Update was that now Edge was added to my system + it was added to the bottom bar next to the start button. This is how the dialog looked for me: https://imgur.com/a/cTBcCBC https://imgur.com/a/cTBcCBC
  - ocdtrekkie 6y ago
    That is indeed a default browser dialog (unlike the one from the Reddit post). And yes, it's because the new Edge got installed. Helpfully though, it does show your current default on top. Note that if you install any web browser, Windows will do this.
    - capableweb 6y ago
      > Note that if you install any web browser, Windows will do this. I guess the main difference between this Edge install and any other browser is that only Edge gets an automatic placement in the bottom taskbar, next to the start button. No other browser I installed have ended up there automatically.
      - ocdtrekkie 6y ago
        That's correct. Don't get me wrong: Microsoft pushes Edge, almost as hard as Google properties push Chrome. But many complaints about Windows are trumped up a bit by misunderstanding what actually happened.

@ocdtrekkie: “Pretty sure the user is wrong about what caused this dialog. It was the recent Firefox update.” Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;]

ocdtrekkie 6y ago

> Explain like I'm five how a firefox update would set the default browser to EDGE ;] It didn't. The person who posted this didn't read the screen, and fundamentally misunderstood it. The title of the post is wrong. You'll notice that the dialog is asking "How do you want to open .pdf files from now on?" Because Firefox can now be set as a default PDF reader, Windows has a new PDF reader option, so it asks the next time the user tries to open a PDF. (And this has nothing to do with being the default web browser or not.) Next, the user also incorrectly assumed this had set the default to Edge. This is again, because they didn't read. Microsoft has broken out the "Featured in Windows 10" option from the "Other options". But it's asking, it hasn't made a change yet.

capableweb 6y ago
As mentioned in my previous comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374147), I was also affected by this. Saw the popup first when I clicked on a link in Discord, and Firefox was not updated (I'm doing those updates manually), only new thing from the Windows Update was that now Edge was added to my system + it was added to the bottom bar next to the start button. This is how the dialog looked for me: https://imgur.com/a/cTBcCBC https://imgur.com/a/cTBcCBC
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  That is indeed a default browser dialog (unlike the one from the Reddit post). And yes, it's because the new Edge got installed. Helpfully though, it does show your current default on top. Note that if you install any web browser, Windows will do this.
  - capableweb 6y ago
    > Note that if you install any web browser, Windows will do this. I guess the main difference between this Edge install and any other browser is that only Edge gets an automatic placement in the bottom taskbar, next to the start button. No other browser I installed have ended up there automatically.
    - ocdtrekkie 6y ago
      That's correct. Don't get me wrong: Microsoft pushes Edge, almost as hard as Google properties push Chrome. But many complaints about Windows are trumped up a bit by misunderstanding what actually happened.