Re:Windows update resets your default programs so they can s...
by capableweb on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:40PM
(#24377122)
As mentioned in my previous comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374147), I was also affected by this. Saw the popup first when I clicked on a link in Discord, and Firefox was not updated (I'm doing those updates manually), only new thing from the Windows Update was that now Edge was added to my system + it was added to the bottom bar next to the start button. This is how the dialog looked for me: https://imgur.com/a/cTBcCBC
Re:Windows update resets your default programs so they can s...
by ocdtrekkie on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:13PM
(#24377975)
That is indeed a default browser dialog (unlike the one from the Reddit post). And yes, it's because the new Edge got installed. Helpfully though, it does show your current default on top.
Note that if you install any web browser, Windows will do this.
Re:Windows update resets your default programs so they can s...
by capableweb on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:09PM
(#24385125)
> Note that if you install any web browser, Windows will do this.
I guess the main difference between this Edge install and any other browser is that only Edge gets an automatic placement in the bottom taskbar, next to the start button. No other browser I installed have ended up there automatically.
Re:Windows update resets your default programs so they can s...
by ocdtrekkie on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:19PM
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That's correct. Don't get me wrong: Microsoft pushes Edge, almost as hard as Google properties push Chrome.
But many complaints about Windows are trumped up a bit by misunderstanding what actually happened.
It didn't. The person who posted this didn't read the screen, and fundamentally misunderstood it. The title of the post is wrong.
You'll notice that the dialog is asking "How do you want to open .pdf files from now on?" Because Firefox can now be set as a default PDF reader, Windows has a new PDF reader option, so it asks the next time the user tries to open a PDF. (And this has nothing to do with being the default web browser or not.)
Next, the user also incorrectly assumed this had set the default to Edge. This is again, because they didn't read. Microsoft has broken out the "Featured in Windows 10" option from the "Other options". But it's asking, it hasn't made a change yet.