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Mozilla changes your default search engine to Yahoo. I wonder if they would be as upset if Bing had outbid Yahoo for this privilege. Both companies should be p
by gnu8 11y ago
Mozilla changes your default search engine to Yahoo. I wonder if they would be as upset if Bing had outbid Yahoo for this privilege.
Both companies should be prosecuted under the CFAA for these acts, making unauthorized changes to computers that don't belong to them.
- baseballmerpeak 11y agoI wonder if Express Settings includes setting the browser back to MS default.
- Zikes 11y agoIt isn't. When the Express Settings option came up I selected the (well hidden) option not to use it, and unchecked every option I was given. My default browser was still switched to Edge.
- makomk 11y agoSupposedly, the hard-to-spot option not to use Express Settings reveals another, equally hard to spot option later on in the install that lets you set your default browser to something other than Edge.
- norea-armozel 11y agoNot in my experience. I did an non-clean upgrade and found Edge was the default browser. And then when I did a clean upgrade with only IE11 as the default browser I believe it defaulted to IE11 for some reason. So, I think there is some legitimate shenanigans going on here. If the W10 upgrade scripts can infer that I previously had IE11 during my clean upgrade and keep it as the default then it should do the same with any other application preferences. Most likely the devs were being lazy and possibly paranoid that the initial experience with Windows 10 would be terrible if the application preferences were maintained. But that's just my guess.