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Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser (www.windowslatest.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser.

First spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft has been testing the new 3D banner for a while now, but it’s now rolling out to more people. If Edge is not your default browser and you open it directly or through files like PDFs, a new banner will remind you to change your default browser settings.

The banner explains that using Edge as your default browser can help protect you from phishing and malware attacks. It asks you to confirm this change by clicking “Set default,” and then you need to confirm again in the Windows settings app.

The pop-up screen will appear after you install the new Windows updates. If you skip the banner, you’ll get another reminder to use Edge when you open the browser.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Switching to Linux is better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I recently swapped and keep breaking my pc. Some people told me it's a rite of passage. Do most people have this experience at the start or is it just Ubuntu or the newest version? When I get it booting back up again I'll be trying to setup backups somehow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

i broke mine a few times, but i just did dumb stuff. using it normally should not break anything. if for example some update breaks something, you can roll back with timeshift and skip all the updates available. had to do that once when some mint update disabled all sound devices, was ok with the next updates. definitely set up timeshift!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's only normal if you're regularly doing iffy things like messing with drives or changing OS shit via terminal without thinking about what you're doing, Ubuntu is a pretty stable system

You should definitely be using TimeShift, it comes pre installed on Mint (which is a derivative of Ubuntu) so it should work or already be on your system

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Does it break with normal use or are you a tinkerer?

[–] Cethin 3 points 2 months ago

What specifically is breaking and what are you doing with the system?

Installing it and using it like normal shouldn't break anything, but it is very easy to break things if you start tinkering. There are very few guardrails.

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