Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by slg on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:09PM (#9978143)

>to me this is clearly about trying to capture the users who stopped using IE over the years.

But those users never used Edge ;) A cynical person could say preserving the previous choice is just Firefox's fear that once a user tests the new Microsoft browser they won't jump back to Firefox.

It also shows that Firefox doesn't have the greatest opinion of their users if it thinks all it takes for them to stop using Firefox is for it to require twice the number of mouse clicks to set it to default.

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by emn13 on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:23PM (#9978251)

Having just installed windows 10: disabling the browser change is well hidden. There's no customize "button" or link, there's a bit of text with no decoration or underline that's lighter and appears greyed out that says "customize" on a screen filled with text. The chances of a user discovering this unless they're actively hunting for this (like I was) are close to zero.

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Re:Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:30PM (#9978297)

Some will like Firefox enough to change back. Some won't. But why should they have to?

I got really sick of Microsoft trying to force me to do what they wanted back in the 1990s. In the 2000s, they seemed to change for the better. (Maybe that was due to the antitrust settlement.) Now here they are back to their old ways.

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