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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by zzo38computer on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:58PM (#20492647)
You shouldn't need Edge, Chrome, or Firefox to install each other. If you know the URL of the file you want to download, you could use curl or wget. (Of course, that won't work if you do not know the URL. But hopefully someone will tell you if you are unable to find it on your own computer.)
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by jedberg on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:13PM (#20492759)
Assuming you're on a machine with curl or wget installed. I haven't used Windows in 20 years, but I don't believe it comes with either one by default.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by jodrellblank on Sunday July 21, 2019 @03:22PM (#20493143)
Invoke-WebRequest, aliased as iwr, shipped in Windows as part of PowerShell for 6 years, will do it with no browser.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by w7 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @05:44PM (#20493859)
As of some recent Windows 10 build (edit: 1803 or insider 17063+), curl.exe (need to specify full executable name not just "curl", which is aliased to Invoke-WebRequest by default) is shipped by default as well. I believe it came around the same time as OpenSSH. You'll also find a tar.exe binary.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by aembleton on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:11PM (#20492740)
Does curl or wget ship with Windows?
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by a_t48 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:22PM (#20492811)
Yes, apparently -

    >curl
    curl: try 'curl --help' for more information

    >where curl
    C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by jodrellblank on Sunday July 21, 2019 @03:28PM (#20493168)
No; to get it without going through a browser you'd have to install Windows Subsystem for Linux as an optional feature, then download a Linux distro from the Microsoft Store - arguable whether that doesn't involve a browser, really.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

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