Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome

Just use Firefox. Skip all this bullshit.

Friendly reminder that winget comes preinstalled on Windows 11 now.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
You can install Firefox without even opening Edge!

Dude, nothing is more suspicious than when a developer of a supposedly free app nags you to use their app. Why do they even want you to use Edge so badly? You're never going to pay any money for it, this screams "give us your data, we want to sell it".

Why downloading chrome when you are using edge? Download Firefox.

switching to Linux + Firefox was the best thing ive ever did

Not seeing the option "Because fuck Microsoft"

In all seriousness tho, I use Firefox because it's not reskinned Chrome.

"Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft"

Wow. If there ever was a reason to run, this is it.

remind me again how this isn't anticompetitive?

Why are you downloading chrome? You are supposed to download Firefox.

The tragedy of edge is that it is technically a fantastic browser for windows but made by Microsoft.

Just thinking about the engineers that built such great memory management and security features that no other browser has just to have the marketing guy come in and say 'yeah put these three layers of bloat on top oh and don't forget to add the new backdoor we need...' only to see that all their work is basically a tech meme...

I guess they must get home and cry while hugging their stock options and 300k/y contract the poor guys...

They are BASICALLY the same, only difference is whom they send your data to.

I'm actually alright with this, which seems to be an unpopular opinion. It seems totally sensible for them to ask why you don't want to use Edge and would rather use Chrome.

If we want to prevent monopolies, we need healthy competition. If Microsoft improves Edge based on this user feedback to create an actually good product, then we all win. It means that if Firefox starts to pull the shit that Google is doing, we have a solid alternative.

Of course the manner in which Microsoft does this matters a lot, but the actual concept itself is a good one.

Started daily driving Linux on a laptop 20 years ago. Moved my desktop to it by 2007. I haven't ran Windows at home except in a VM (5+years ago) since around 2009. I'm much happier with the quirks of Linux than I am using Microsoft products.

Windows is just one big advertisement jfc and M$FT the audacity to charge $200 for it?! 🏴‍☠️

I prefer to leave edge never clicked by using winget. It comes default on Win 11 (Most likely new install, not an advertisement for that dumpster fire). For windows 10 you can use the Microsoft Store to install AppInstaller which will get you winget. Winget is a MS product.

I mainly like doing this because Edge does a bunch of setup when clicked for the first time. This avoids all that.

winget install --id=Google.Chrome -e

Or you can ever do slightly prevent the backslide in marketshare for Firefox.

winget install --id=Mozilla.Firefox -e

Just run powershell or windows terminal and use those commands and you can leave edge where it belongs.

More info here. https://winstall.app/apps/Mozilla.Firefox https://phoenixnap.com/kb/install-winget

Because Microsoft is so damn pushy. Literally anytime they ask my feedback is that they need to just fuck off from my PC and do the bare minimum that I require them to do. I don't need all the bullshit they throw on there to try and get more and more of my data.

You can't blame them for wanting to know. It's a major market, and they're getting their asses kicked. If I had to pick one, I'd pick Edge over Chrome, so it's actually an interesting question anyway.

I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 shortly after release and got a popup from Bing over the game asking if I wanted to enable Bing in Chrome. I immediately blocked bing.com on my network. Never looked back.

Microsoft: Possibly the biggest motivator in people switching to Linux or MacOS.

both of them are fighting over the exclusive rights to your browsing data and ad-impressions.

They can both suck an egg.

As someone once said to me. Microsoft is not something you like, but is something you have to withstand due to Enterprise use it so much, and have so many users.

But when it comes to the browser, then you have to follow the standard for HTML, and suddenly you can choose something else.

So download firefox! Anyway, edge is a reskinned chrome, like nearly all chrome based browsers...

Microsoft, if they weren't run by morons could capitalize HARD on Google's fuckery.

Hey, we've got the chromium browser but we won't be following suit with googles anti ad blocking bullshit!

This would convert a bunch of people, including me. And with me goes pretty much 30 people in my range (family / friends) since I setup their shit anyway.

But, no Microsoft is just licking Google's asshole and applying lipstick on the chrome turd and wondering why no-one wants it.

Do they really think it being a Microsoft product means people trust it more?

winget install -i Mozilla.Firefox -e

Overly controlling bf

I love Edge so I never get this pop up.

Do they do the same if you download Firefox? I remember using IE exclusively to download FF immediately after installing XP, Win 7, 10 or whatever it was.

As web browsers are now free in price, if they are not privacy and freedom oriented the only way to promote them is by nagging and force.

Linux equivalent: Imagine if AppImageD pops up asking for your opinion and feedback on AppImages whenever you visit Flathub or Snapcraft.

If I was Microsoft, I'd wanna know too. After all, it's a race for every single one of our data points, and then some.

Either way, you gotta admit it's ironically funny that Microsoft wants to keep/poach Chrome users into their own... wait for it... Chromium-based browser.

I think I am okay with this popup, I mean they are asking whats wrong with their product. They arent trying to break something in Chrome or like that.

If Edge stops forcing everyone with their "new and improved AI powered..." stuff, it is better than Chrome.

I don't get why everyone is appalled by this. They're just quantifying user feedback. Long as they don't stop you from downloading chrome, and the feedback is optional, I don't see the harm

Edge > Chrome. I use it at work. Much better.

What happens when you try to download Firefox?

I think one huge issue is that edge is fine, it is a browser that works. There is nothing competitively interesting about it to make people consider switching, plus there is the infamy of IE and Micro$oft's reputation to contend with.

They should just develop a lightweight browser installer and bow out of the browser wars.

I.e. Microsoft is looking to build an antitrust suit against Google.

I wouldn't turn this into a Firefox vs chrome(ium) fight,but why would anyone use a reskinned chrome(edge) over the original one? Not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.

But edge is much better than chrome, was the only browser I could keep open while emulating switch games. If you are going to use a chromium fork instead of Firefox, at least use edge.

Overly attached hegemon.

Yeah it’s fair; trying to download Chrome when Edge is already there doesn’t make sense to me

Why does anyone care? Just ignore the poll and download whichever browser you want to use. If it was actually stopping me from downloading the other browser, then that's a problem.

This is the same as an advert popping up. Just bat it away and carry on as normal.

Yeah MS, compel use of your software by forcing it on people, cajoling and misleading them. Instead of, ya know, adding killer features that make it popular and recommended by all, the way so many of your competitors did as they ate your lunch.

That kid with abandonment issues that tries to bribe classmates to stay a little while longer by promising them candy, but instead of that kid it's Microsoft, and instead of candy it's gravel.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Google Chrome download in Microsoft’s Edge web browser?

How many times will the company try to steer me away?

The pop-ups are nearly two years old, and the injected ads are from earlier this year.

I cannot believe how many stories we’ve written about the shit Microsoft has pulled to steer you away from Chrome.

Even today, the company still won’t always respect your choice of default browser, though that may finally be changing in the EU.

Sadly the poll doesn’t include an “I’m boycotting Edge because you don’t respect me as a user” option.

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The answer, as the saying goes, is in the body of the question.

Am I victim of the Mandela effect or did this happen some years ago too? I remember setting up chrome on win10 in my tech-normie days and getting a similar thing, maybe my memory is failing me.

Edge is just chromium, so what's the big deal.

Completely legal and definitely not abusing one monopoly to push for another

I use Opera because it uses less memory on my tiny $175 laptop.

Edge was good at launch, it's still okay but it's kind of a bloated mess now

This comment has turned into a massive downvote farm simply because I'm saying that I use Edge... but it's probably not for long.

Just hit that button already.

Reminds me a bit of that scene in "2001 - A Space Odyssey" where Bowman unplugs HALs memory modules, and HAL begs him not to do that.

Honestly Edge might be better at this point but it really doesn't matter. Google won the browser war years ago and people have too much inertia to care

They think Chrome as everybody have a Gmail account but not Microsoft account. I dont think you can login to Edge with a Google account and get all your stuff there. At minimum you first must install Chrome, then start Edge and trigger the import process - but why do that when you now already have Chrome installed?

This is true for all other browsers.

The stupid sidebar on the right is reason enough for me, but I also want an adblocker that's not crippled.

Of course I find this attempt from Microsoft to make you stick on Edge (together with all the other ones) pretty ridicolous, But after having to use Win11 + Edge for a bunch of days instead of my usual OS and Browser I really don't understand why people who doesn't give a shit about their privacy and the welfare of the internet (because if you use Google Chrome this must be your case) just don't use Edge. It's basically chrome but with more cool features and a much better integration with the OS!

So I guess in this case maybe it was not an attempt to make user stick with Edge, but just the Edge developers being annoyed by the fact that all what they do is not apreciated 😂

https://youtu.be/DEzC-3mi3y0?t=19