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I'm failing to see the reason for outrage here. Apple won't allow removing Safari from macOS without turning off system protection and then it will get reinstalled next OS upgrade. Heck you can't even remove the chess game on macOS without turning off system protection.
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en
Yeah. I know it’s been corrected.
I even let Edge be the default browser. That way, whenever an app opens a link, it opens in a browser I don't use, and it can't read any important information or browser fingerprint that matters. I am still using Firefox for my browsing needs. EDIT: It's more about my browsing habits: Now this browser has been opened. I can close it before the page loads and before I have read anything I really don't care about.
... and if you're worried about not being fast enough, you could also add (to your firewall) an outbound "block everything" rule for the .exe.
Alternatively, configure it to always use a specific proxy server which doesn't exist.
if microsoft would just stop to shove the browser into peoples face after they have already said that they prefer another, then there wouldn't be so many complaints
This is a pretty sane move on MS's part... I find it reasonable that an OS doesn't let you remove what may be the only browser on the system, for a lot of reasons. I read this as a push to really ditch IE in the very near future, and don't really mind at all. In no particular order - Something has to provide a native webview for desktop applications - MS has no default package manager for users, and doesn't provide b…
Cant MS just provide a button somewhere that downloads and installs the browser? A computer doesn't need a browser to download something from the internet (such as a browser).
https://blog.jourdant.me/post/3-ways-to-download-files-with-...
There's also always the option MS could have done, disable uninstall of the last browser on the os, whichever that may be. So if you have chrome, edge and firefox and you remove 2 of them, trying to uninstall the third one would give a warning or stop you or something.
Maybe I’m in a minority, but it’s really a pretty good browser. I wish it supported a few more features with the PDF reader (such as text box annotations). However, it still has way more features in that space than most competitors.
I also use Firefox for tab containers, but Edge has been my default browser for a while now.
Why MS is so special in this regard?
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Let's not pretend we live in some Stone Age where only our hardlined desktops are able to access the internet.
Cool, let's not. Let's not pretend I want to to type that long thing from my phone simply because my os doesn't have a web browser. If you want to, no one's stopping you. I want the basic tools included and always working.
I don't understand why this is an issue. You can't uninstall Safari on OSX( some people here in the comments say you actually can delete it, but this will probably leave you broken system) or ios. You can't uninstall Chrome on Android. Why MS is so special in this regard?
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Cool, let's not. Let's not pretend I want to to type that long thing from my phone simply because my os doesn't have a web browser. If you want to, no one's stopping you. I want the basic tools included and always working.
I think we have a very different definition of basic tools.
I think you are defining a computer OS as a basic OS -like TRON on a microwave. It is not -it's a multi-GB platform, and a basic tool included in it is not a basic tool you'd expect from a microwave. But these days, some microwaves also include a browser.
Much like airbags are a basic safety feature, but were not 20 years ago. Much like vi was a basic feature. But why include vi, when all you need is ed?