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>So that means you think microsoft should be allowed to force users to edge on windows ? Arguably they're already doing that. There's a shockingly high number
by Hamuko 3y ago
>So that means you think microsoft should be allowed to force users to edge on windows ?
Arguably they're already doing that. There's a shockingly high number of times that I click on something in Windows and it opens up Edge instead of Firefox, my default browser. Even Apple manages to respect my default browser on macOS.
- nolok 3y agoI agree, they're pushing hard toward that, our only saving grace being that they still must keep it decoupled at the low level due to existing regulation. The only thing that will stop them is some pushback, but threads like these scare me that the very people who should lead that pushback and now getting complacent to it ... Whatever one might think about Chrome on desktop, fact are that 1 - people install it on purpose, because they want to, not because they're forced, and 2 - it's supremely easy to replace, which is why google tries hard to tie itself into more (password manager obviously, but chrome apps at one point). Chrome is open to competition, it's just that this competition is as much marketing and mind share as it is tech merit. What Edge and Safari are doing or trying to do is not open to competition. (this does not mean chrome should not be reigned it, I believe it should)