Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser

Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by mjr00 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:09AM (#35788693)

According to the article this does not seem to be the case:

> Gizmodo was able to replicate the problem. In fact, we were able to circumvent the issue just by changing the name of the Chrome app on a Windows desktop. It seems that Microsoft threw up the roadblock specifically for Chrome, the main competitor to its Edge browser.

> Mozilla’s Firefox has its own one-click default button, which worked just fine throughout the ordeal.

so no, this doesn't appear to be about an app using a backdoor API, it's specifically targeted at Chrome.

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Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by int_19h on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:16PM (#35796928)

Both can be true, though. In this case, Chrome does, in fact, try to work around the standard OS API to register default apps (because it opens a screen where the user is then supposed to actually pick things instead of one-click "it just works"):

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

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