Microsoft Edge is misbehaving.

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

  • Ascyron@lemmy.oneEnglish
    72·
    10 months ago

    This behaviour is why I roll my eyes when the edge fanbois are all like “iTs AlL cHrOmE aNyWaY”.

    Fuck any company that uses their power to try trick people into using their software, yes including google.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        7·
        10 months ago

        Firefox still needs to be compatible with the “living standard” as implemented in Chromium, it’s how the modern web works 🤷

          • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            17·
            10 months ago

            Google’s monopolistic and often asinine implementation of web standards that haven’t been fully set in stone by the proper internet oversight groups yet, I’d guess?

            • jarfil@beehaw.org
              1·
              9 months ago

              Check out the history of WHATWG vs W3C, you might get surprised by which side Mozilla is on, or where did the code for Chromium come from.

          • jarfil@beehaw.org
            2·
            9 months ago

            It means a standard that changes in a bottom-up way, usually defined by a reference implementation… instead of by organizing worldwide trips to have meetings, workgroups, and committees, who define whatever they pull out of thin air, then expect developers to implement by pointing to a multi-thousand page PDF that nobody knows if it’s possible to implement, much less in an efficient way.

    • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      It’s crazy to me that Microsoft isn’t getting any legal pressure for doing this