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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by literallyaduck »

dorchadas wrote: post #50

I need a new computer, and I was going to switch to Windows so I could game with friends (while dual-booting into some linux distro for anything programming related), which would force me into 11. It's already a shame that I have to have a Microsoft account to even set up the damn thing, but now I can't even use whatever default browser I want? I'm seriously about the say screw it and pay for another Mac. I love mine…

Just use linux. With proton and lutris, gaming is good. Microsoft can keep it's draconian OS.

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF »

teddyh wrote: post #4

Tell me again how Microsoft has changed and it isn’t the same company anymore, and how EEE is ancient history.

Microsoft, like many other big modern tech companies, just treat goodwill like a currency. Now the time has come to spend it again.

I don't believe for a second that EEE is gone from Microsofts culture and strategy.

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by howinteresting »

matt_heimer wrote: post #57
josephcsible wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But keep in mind the fact that any parts of Windows using microsoft-edge: URLs for any reason whatsoever is itself anticompetitive behavior.

Is it really? If I have an OS and I want to deeply integrate the browser into the OS for use-cases other than general browsing of the web, why can't there be browser specific URLs to accomplish that? Is there a complete list of microsoft-edge:// use cases? I know there is a News integration to the taskbar. I love standards but sometimes you have edge use cases that the entire world doesn't need or can adopt. Why can'…

These are exactly the arguments Microsoft used in its antitrust defense.

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by pojntfx »

freeqaz wrote: post #64
pjfin123 wrote: post #33

Linux Desktop feeling extra good today, my sound often doesn't work but I don't have to deal with Microsoft nonsense.

Pipewire has made all of my audio issues on Linux go away, at this point. Maybe it's my hardware (a high-end Dell Latitude that is Ubuntu certified) but it just f*cking works! I'm on Arch, so I find I tend to have fewer issues than with Ubuntu (due to the latter always being on some ancient version). Seriously though when I switched from Pulse to Pipewire... I rebooted and I've never had any issues since! Now, my big…

If you like i3 but want to try Wayland pain-free - Sway uses i3's config file syntax, so you shouldn't have to change anything to try it out :)

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by barranger »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #35
quasarj wrote: post #24

What in the love of God is a "microsoft-edge://" link, and why would someone willingly click it? This sounds like non-news.

it's a link buried inside a lot of the bundled utilities in Windows. It forces URLs to use Edge as the browser instead of your chosen default one. Windows 11 has a news & weather popup widget that sits down by the clock, in which you can click on the live tiles shown to take you to more info on the web. This widget uses microsoft-edge:// URI scheme so Edge is ALWAYS invoked. Mozilla tried to hack their way around it,…

Or have watched Apple's behaviour with browsers on iOS (yes I know about the Chrome, that's just a facade on top of safari's render and js engine).

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by nsxwolf »

Didn't they lose a pretty big antitrust lawsuit over this a couple decades ago? Has the regulatory landscape changed to the point that they think they can just start this right up again? Or is it more, there's no way anyone could believe a Microsoft browser could dominate anymore?

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by lostmsu »

xgbi wrote: post #43
soco wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's 4 good years to wait and see.

> That's 4 good years to see if the grass is greener on the Unix side There, I fixed it

If only Linux implemented GPU scheduling in that time...

Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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Post by peakaboo »

josephcsible wrote: post #39
peakaboo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you can use another operating system you actually like. That way you are contributing to the solution and not the problem.

It sounds to me like GP wants to stay on Windows 10. I agree Linux is better, but if you want that, you can move to it whenever you want completely independent of Windows 11.

Pelle wants all kinds of stuff that is bad for them. Sometimes the right thing to do is to push them to change for the better.

Microsoft treats their users with contempt. And I understand it because no matter the privacy or software abuse, they keep using it.

Same reason people continue to use Facebook - they just don't have the spine to change their behavior and become better people who don't use shitty products.

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