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Windows 11 Makes It Hard to Change Your Default Web Browser
- neogodless 5y agoConfusing... there are two howtogeek.com articles covering this. The other is on HN's front page today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251210 Why not... here's a third one! https://www.howtogeek.com/768188/windows-11-will-soon-block-all-default-browser-workarounds/ https://www.howtogeek.com/768188/windows-11-will-soon-block-...
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoOne or two of those is about Firefox circumventing the exclusivity of opening microsoft-edge:// links with Edge - like News and Interest links.
- neogodless 5y agoAh good catch; related but slightly different.
- johng 5y agoI recently installed Windows 11 under Parallels on my new Macbook Pro. I couldn't believe how difficult Windows 11 made it to set Chrome as the default. Absolutely unreal.
- lovelyviking 5y agoSo for me logically follows : it makes it easy to change this whole stupid "OS" to something useful ...