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Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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I think the issue here is not which browser is better, but companies not respecting your preferences and use scummy methods to make you switch. This might be a Microsoft issue now, but I can see it becoming a slippery slope and have more companies in the future do the same. Lets say that Microsoft succeed here: whats stopping Google to do the exact same with Android. Then you end up to keep in sync your favorites in 3 different browsers (Safari, Edge, Chrome. Firefox gets shafted since even if you use it as default each company will force its own browser) depending on the OS you are using.
Oh. I'm not arguing. They all have scummy methods to try and enforce their app over someone else's. Microsoft is kinda the worst about it tho.
I was just commenting on how cyclic it all is. Firefox was bloated and IE just overall sucked. Chrome came around touting how blazing fast it was with it's V8 javascript engine but once they had market share the bloat crept in. Then msft came out with Edge, which was lean and mean and actually a nice browser. But the bloat didn't even creep this time, it just poured in.
I'm hoping since Firefox isn't part of the FAANG that the bloat will be kept at bay.