Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers

Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by iggldiggl on Friday September 23, 2022 @05:39PM (#32957431)

For a few things (the one thing I'm familiar with is the lock screen if you've left the "show random pretty pictures" option turned on, but I think there are a few more places besides that) Microsoft does force links to open in Edge instead of the default browser.

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by InitialLastName on Friday September 23, 2022 @05:57PM (#32957610)

- Any links from many Microsoft apps (including searches in the Start Menu that silently turn into web searches)

- PDFs (sometimes, even if you don't have Edge set as your default PDF app) (even though Edge is actually the least unusable non-paid PDF viewer for Windows)

Besides that, Edge will randomly reset itself as the default on updates.

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by russnes on Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:45AM (#32959800)

For PDFs you should try this bad boy https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by InitialLastName on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:47PM (#32965998)

Sumatra is a phenomenal viewer, but its annotation management is miles short of the "write directly on the page" convenience that Edge achieves.

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by RunSet on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:31PM (#32965842)

SumatraPDF singlehandedly makes the format readable for me. The alternatives are complete rubbish- in other words, worthy of Adobe.

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