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[–] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I also have never

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[–] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Same

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years 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.