Microsoft Edge now shows a security-focused banner on Google Chrome’s download page. It highlights built-in safety features and links to Microsoft’s Online Safety page.

Microsoft is trying a new way to stop users from downloading Google Chrome. If you open the Chrome download page in Microsoft Edge, you may see a new banner at the top. This version looks different from the usual prompts that ask users to stay with Edge.

I’m curious, what if I download Firefox from Edge? 🤔

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      Lmao that gave me a really good laugh. Its so real man, they just need your data so badly.

  • Wioum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    3 months ago

    Just a reminder that you dont need to touch Edge to download a browser on w11.

    With cmd:

    Librewolf: winget install -e --id LibreWolf.LibreWolf

    or

    Firefox: winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox

    • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      It’s been years since I’ve used Windows at home, but I still have a Firefox installer exe hanging around on my server on the offchance I ever need to use it again. Thanks for showing me it’s no longer necessary.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        winget ships with Windows by default, so it is a particularly good option for folks who don’t want to modify their Windows computer much, or have limited permissions.

        I understand that Winget is based on chocolatey to some degree.

      • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Winget is still playing catch-up in my experience. Microsoft’s own office365 winget package is broken constantly.

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    342·
    3 months ago

    I had chances to peek into some of my friends’ laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge. MS’s strategy looks pretty stupid, but it’s actually working.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      People have always defaulted to the… default.

      Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium’s bullshit… edge is perfectly fine.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      3 months ago

      I prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don’t have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.

      • aramis87@fedia.io
        51·
        3 months ago

        Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.

        • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          I’m not the person you were replying to, but I enjoy Vivaldi’s tab grouping and window splitting features, specifically. The fact that they haven’t been actively trying to shove AI down my throat is also a plus.

        • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          There’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own fediverse instances.

          After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        It’s working because Edge isn’t IE and it’s actually a decent browser. It’s just Microsoft chromium instead of Google chromium.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, but chrome/chromium is relegated to trash-tier now, due to the introduction of manifest v3 and the blacklisting of uBlock Origin.

      • nullroot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        As far as chromium based browsers go, edge is actually one of the best. I have a portable degoogled chromium I keep locked in a vault myself, but that’s only because I ripped edge out of windows. If I wasn’t the type of person that got irrationally furious about edge running in the background using up system resources doing whatever the fuck windows was having to do, I would just use edge when I needed a chromium browser.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    I country with a working legislative would prevent a market leader from attempting to prevent consumers from exercising their freedom to choose. Oh well.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    They DESPERATELY want you to use Edge because they DESPERATELY want to watch what websites you visit, for how long, and what you click on. They want to know EVERYTHING about you:

    What you buy, what you masturbate to, what you like and don’t like, how you vote, what you watch, what music you like, the clothes you wear, what you children are like, what movies you watch, who you know… THEY WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SO THEY CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU: ADS. PROPAGANDA. VOTES. CONTROL.

    WE ARE BEING FARMED

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      3 months ago

      There’s plenty:

      • Not supporting monopolistic practices.
      • User preferences.
      • Diversifying your software so you don’t get trapped in an ecosystem.
      • Not having Copilot stuffed down your throat.
      • User preferences.
      • Making it possible to rip Edge out of Windows for the purpose of debloating.
      • LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.socialEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        Sure we should always have choice but if you’re hopping out of Microsoft’s monopoly into Google’s is there even any point?

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          If you have to pick between two monopolistic corporations, using both of them but giving each a little less of your data and attention is a way to mitigate the risks and damage.

          If Microsoft can harvest data on how I use my computer, I can at least make it a bit harder for them to harvest my browsing habits too by not voluntarily giving them browser telemetry on top of that.

    • Doorknob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yeah fr. Edge is a better browser than Chrome. I know that’s a bar you can walk over, but…

  • warm@kbin.earth
    21·
    3 months ago

    Apart from being chromium, Edge was pretty good until it released, then it had all the Microsoft bullshit added.