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Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU. (www.theverge.com)

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Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Has that actually happened? You sure you didn't click some "I agree" button after an update?

Windows has never set a new default browser for me without asking. Sure, it asked a few times, but unless I agreed, no settings were changed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe, the behaviour is different, depending on where you're from. In the EU, Microsoft is comparatively well-behaved. In the US, they're extra icky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the US and that has never happened to me, and neither has a lot of the other wild shit people claim microsoft does every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What I see a lot of the time is default pdf viewers and the like being left on Edge. They also hide the default browser setting in outlook to default to Edge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It never reset the setting for me either, but it definitely doesn't always respect your wishes. It just goes ahead and opens certain links in edge despite the setting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sometimes after an update (luckily I never update my windows because I use it once every 2 months), it will start edge in a full screen window that I cannot close until it stops doing its stupid animation. Maybe I also clicked an I agree button inadvertently, but I never intentionally set edge as default