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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by Fej on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:46PM (#14807756)
If they found a way around it, Microsoft would patch it out, certainly. But I doubt it.
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by JohnTHaller on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:53PM (#14807805)
Chrome was the first app I saw that found the technical way around to force taskbar pinning. Microsoft, sadly, didn't patch that out.
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by ccoggins on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:08PM (#14809069)
I think they must have recently fixed this, in Win 10 Pro at least. I installed Win 10 Pro yesterday, then Chrome and it did not automatically pin itself. Actually, if I remember correctly it even had a message at one point during the install describing how to pin it.
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by pxeboot on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:12PM (#14809086)
It is fairly easy to disable this functionality. I have seen at least one app do this already.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.winhelponline.com/blog/edge-h...

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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by ViViDboarder on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:39PM (#14809684)
Ironic that this comment highlights another annoying Google thing. Looks like a link to Google.com but it's an amp page.
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by dfc on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:45AM (#14812356)
Why is it ironic that a company that does one thing that annoys you also does another thing that annoys you?
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