Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

Post by eldaisfish » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:46 PM UTC

lowercased wrote: post #291

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I don't know whatever weird psychology junk you're talking about. I bought an iPhone Mini because it's literally the only phone on the market that fits in the human hand. iOS sucks and I'd love to go back to Android, but there are zero Android phones of a usable size available for purchase. So iPhone it is.

> but there are zero Android phones of a usable size available for purchase. So iPhone it is. My local dollar store has a couple of prepaid android 5.5" phones. Not much size diff from my iphone 12 mini. Point still taken though - 'regular' sized phones from 6 years ago are mostly gone from the mainstream market. I really hope there's another mini or a bumped up iphone se. I would like them to keep the physical home…

Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

hutzlibu wrote: post #298

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It can tell what Microsoft does in Europe. But, of course, MS can always decide to abandon the region instead of complying too.

That "region" is a very big market. So that is not really an option for them. On the other hand large parts of the economy and government in the EU are totally dependant on Microsoft products and would be screwed if they would pull the plug.

Post by 0xffff2 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

tut-urut-utut wrote: post #288

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What is the benefit of doing this over simply installing Firefox on Windows? After you download the Firefox installer, you're done with Windows "messing" with you.

The Windows Firefox will be removed by an enterprise security suite forced upon you from your IT security. Or bogged down by antivirus. Luckily for us, 99,99% of those corporate security and IT drones have no idea what you can do with wsl.

Post by dmitrygr » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:53 PM UTC

trelane wrote: post #304

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WSL2 in Windows means you can just run a Debian underneath and launch a non-snap Firefox from there and have it appears in Windows. Now you get the benefit of Windows power management (and that beautiful laptop battery life) but a web browser Microsoft isn't going to mess with. This sounds hilarious were it not the way I actually work. PS: I'll also mention that VSCode from Windows to WSL2 + Debian is a mind-blowingl…

Or you could run Linux on Linux hardware and get the full hardware support and sweet battery life without the Microsoft spyware.

Post by xen2xen1 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #273

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WSL2 in Windows means you can just run a Debian underneath and launch a non-snap Firefox from there and have it appears in Windows. Now you get the benefit of Windows power management (and that beautiful laptop battery life) but a web browser Microsoft isn't going to mess with. This sounds hilarious were it not the way I actually work. PS: I'll also mention that VSCode from Windows to WSL2 + Debian is a mind-blowingl…

How are you supposed to discover and use WSL? I got fed up with trying to run Fusion360 on Linux, no longer had a Mac, and reignited my long disused Windows installation recently. Updated and restarted. Looked around for WSL, nothing. Searched online, loads of blog spam of mixed helpfulness, no way of telling (for me, new to it) if they were v1 or v2, no basic information like they're talking about Ubuntu but is that…