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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] 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.