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How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10 (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or simply use Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As if that stops Windows from spamming you with popups that you should be using Edge with Bing instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pop up specifically mentions chrome, it's not asking to switch browser but just the search engine. It's anecdotal but I only use Firefox and have never gotten this pop up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also have never

[–] Coreidan 2 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox on windows 11. I never get pop ups.

[–] Treczoks 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then Microsoft will either tell you to use Edge and Bing (or else!), or just set this automatically.

I had this issue on the windows box at work. For some time, whenever I opened Firefox, it told me that it was not set as the default browser. I fixed this, only to get the same message again the next day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure it's not just your IT locking in the default browser? I for sure never had this problem before.

[–] Treczoks 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. At least not on purpose. And for some reason, it only happened on my PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd say it might be a borked install, then. I've had some windows installation that doesn't lock in settings properly, which is fixed after a reinstall. The reinstall is mostly because I'm too lazy to troubleshoot the actual reason.