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Still nowhere near as bad as Windows popping up a system level notification on consumer configurations of Windows 10, with a big advertisement for Edge and tryi

Still nowhere near as bad as Windows popping up a system level notification on consumer configurations of Windows 10, with a big advertisement for Edge and trying to get people to change their browser to Edge.

Croftengea 6y ago
It's even worse. When you launch Edge just to go to search and type 'download firefox' Edge tries to stop you by putting a nag banner right inside the search results.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  Confirmed on Mac too.. Big banner with: "You're already browsing in the new Microsoft Edge Keep using to get world class performance with more privacy, more productivity, and more value" Ridiculous. I never saw that before as I always install FF first so I do it from Safari. Edge comes auto deployed by work. And mozilla isn't even the first link it found. #1 is Opera and #2 is Vivaldi despite having 'download firefox' as the search term.
- numpad0 6y ago
  Is it Edge or Bing?
- aitchnyu 6y ago
  I cant open a link from Teams or Outlook in Android if I don't download Edge. Even copying test returns a nagging/warning.
- egeozcan 6y ago
  And underneath that, there's an ad for opera... https://i.imgur.com/hZCFKvT.png https://i.imgur.com/hZCFKvT.png
mavhc 6y ago
Are you sure you want to not use Edge? Please? I'm going to cry. Hey, I'll reset it to Edge in a bit anyway just in case.
- walrus01 6y ago
  Here, let me remind you how much I love you with the giant blue full screen 'welcome to windows, please make a microsoft account' message next time you log in. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/new-welcome-to-windows-screens-window-10/23c0fadc-4d44-476b-9ebf-7eddf65d26ef https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/new-we... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/welcome-to-windows-screen-will-show-up-even-when/024b6bb8-7389-48c5-9670-69dab49b9fab https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/welcom...
debacle 6y ago
"Not as bad as Windows" is such a low, low bar. Mozilla would be far more effective if they would just properly align their incentives.
perryizgr8 6y ago
It's so disheartening to see Windows fall to such anti-user practices. But I guess this is par for the course for modern OSes. On apple systems I get a permanent system notification about Safari every few days. I have to dismiss it manually every time.
- walrus01 6y ago
  I mean no disrespect whatsoever - but how old are you? Because from a longer term perspective, having seen what Microsoft was up to in the mid to late 1990s, this is just them being consistent with how they've always been... It just has a new shiny friendly face on it with 'free' onedrive services, outlook webmail and such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Antitrust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Antitrust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
  - perryizgr8 6y ago
    I'm a 90s kid. But most of my computer usage happened with Win XP and Win 7. I remember them quite fondly, and don't recall such blatant user hostility.
    - walrus01 6y ago
      It was really more in the win98SE, NT4 and win2000 era that they took aggressive steps to make IE the default and crush Netscape as a competitor. Preventing PC manufacturers from bundling Netscape as a default installed program with an entry on the desktop as an icon, and in the start menu, was a big part of it.

Croftengea 6y ago

It's even worse. When you launch Edge just to go to search and type 'download firefox' Edge tries to stop you by putting a nag banner right inside the search results.

GekkePrutser 6y ago
Confirmed on Mac too.. Big banner with: "You're already browsing in the new Microsoft Edge Keep using to get world class performance with more privacy, more productivity, and more value" Ridiculous. I never saw that before as I always install FF first so I do it from Safari. Edge comes auto deployed by work. And mozilla isn't even the first link it found. #1 is Opera and #2 is Vivaldi despite having 'download firefox' as the search term.
numpad0 6y ago
Is it Edge or Bing?
aitchnyu 6y ago
I cant open a link from Teams or Outlook in Android if I don't download Edge. Even copying test returns a nagging/warning.
egeozcan 6y ago
And underneath that, there's an ad for opera... https://i.imgur.com/hZCFKvT.png https://i.imgur.com/hZCFKvT.png

mavhc 6y ago

Are you sure you want to not use Edge? Please? I'm going to cry. Hey, I'll reset it to Edge in a bit anyway just in case.

walrus01 6y ago
Here, let me remind you how much I love you with the giant blue full screen 'welcome to windows, please make a microsoft account' message next time you log in. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/new-welcome-to-windows-screens-window-10/23c0fadc-4d44-476b-9ebf-7eddf65d26ef https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/new-we... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/welcome-to-windows-screen-will-show-up-even-when/024b6bb8-7389-48c5-9670-69dab49b9fab https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/welcom...

debacle 6y ago

"Not as bad as Windows" is such a low, low bar. Mozilla would be far more effective if they would just properly align their incentives.

perryizgr8 6y ago

It's so disheartening to see Windows fall to such anti-user practices. But I guess this is par for the course for modern OSes. On apple systems I get a permanent system notification about Safari every few days. I have to dismiss it manually every time.

walrus01 6y ago
I mean no disrespect whatsoever - but how old are you? Because from a longer term perspective, having seen what Microsoft was up to in the mid to late 1990s, this is just them being consistent with how they've always been... It just has a new shiny friendly face on it with 'free' onedrive services, outlook webmail and such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Antitrust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Antitrust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
- perryizgr8 6y ago
  I'm a 90s kid. But most of my computer usage happened with Win XP and Win 7. I remember them quite fondly, and don't recall such blatant user hostility.
  - walrus01 6y ago
    It was really more in the win98SE, NT4 and win2000 era that they took aggressive steps to make IE the default and crush Netscape as a competitor. Preventing PC manufacturers from bundling Netscape as a default installed program with an entry on the desktop as an icon, and in the start menu, was a big part of it.