Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows

Re:Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads ... by TheLML on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:20PM (#39748736)

That still wouldn't justify being asked a hundred times. But I also cannot relate. I use Firefox as my main browser and start Chrome and Edge semi-regularly. Only Edge keeps asking me to make it my default browser. And then of course there were the few times where a Windows update "accidentally" set Edge as my default browser.

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Re:Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads ... by asadotzler on Monday March 18, 2024 @06:25PM (#39750803)

The second checkbox in Firefox's Settings panel is "Always check if Firefox is your default browser" and I have every reason to believe that Firefox respects that setting. Do the other browsers not have a similar setting? I don't have Chrome so cannot check but Edge doesn't seem to have this at the top of their settings and perhaps nowhere in their settings. Consider a browser that's not so hostile :D

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Re:Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads ... by TheLML on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:36AM (#39754722)

I use Firefox as my default browser and only open the other two occasionally. Just last night I opened Chrome and Edge, and once again gave me a big dialog about applying suggested settings. The only setting was to set it as my default browser. And the options were "ok" and "later".

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