I don't see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.
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Plenty of people will fall for that, my mother rarely uses her laptop, so I installed Firefox for her. She got a notification telling her to switch to Edge, so she did. At least she told me so I could switch it back
Yeah good point. I'd recommend uninstalling edge using Aveyo's edge uninstaller, it won't annoy you anymore.
last time i tried using it, it broke all pdf files on my system and eventually i also broke the open with menu while trying to restore it (well i restored the file association and made it point to firefox, but it seems like if you forget to set anything but edge before restoring the file association, it will break the open with menu permanently for all file types, causing it to crash explorer shell when hovered over)
I've been rolling out linux mint to some older family members. Firefox gave them troubles (they couldn't identify the logo), but switching in chrome did the trick. I'm now convinced that the most common OS use-case is a browser launcher.
Indeed it is, browsers are very complex pieces of software as well, they're almost like their own operating system
For sure. And increasingly so. I used to think chromebooks were silly but after this experience I totally see their value: 0->WWW as fast as possible is what people want
Chromebooks were genius
Isn't that what Chromebooks are for?
Exactly! However, in my situation, I was helping them out with some old hardware. I had to help so many times with Windows that I took a risk and offered to "update their PC". The "update" failed because chrome was gone - but I "changed some settings" and now chrome "came back to the computer" and now it's smooth sailing 🤣🤣🤣
People are social beings. They trust people recommending stuff. Its so bad that you need to tell people "well dont believe a thing big tech tells you"
I was always told to not trust strangers on the internet, but I guess if a multi billion dollar company is telling you something, you should believe them