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What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I don't understand? When you launch any browser it's a 1 click "yes" to set as default.

To set it via Windows settings, you just search "browser" and select it from the drop down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (15 children)

On windows 10 its 1 click away only for Edge. For any other browser the settings page is opened and you do it feom there. Now, for me and you the settings page is the most trivial thing to operate, but for others it might not be.

On windows 11 they have broken down the default browser to a million default settings, and you need to change each and every one individually.

In google pixel a chrome-like search bar is stuck to every page on your homescreen, takes a full row, and very accidently clickable. You need to change the OS or launcher to stop this.

And then some things on all of those systems will always open eith chrome/Edge with no non hackish way of changing that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I was having problems with Firefox yesterday and reinstalled it. It was 1 click on Windows 11 for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's that mean? It worked. Go jerk off about Linux elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will periodically overwrite user's preference to the ones dictated by Microsoft

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Proof? Has never happened to me. Your ass must hurt from pulling that out of it.

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