Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.

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    8 months ago

    Has that actually happened? You sure you didn’t click some “I agree” button after an update?

    Windows has never set a new default browser for me without asking. Sure, it asked a few times, but unless I agreed, no settings were changed.

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      8 months ago

      I believe, the behaviour is different, depending on where you’re from. In the EU, Microsoft is comparatively well-behaved. In the US, they’re extra icky.

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        8 months ago

        I’m in the US and that has never happened to me, and neither has a lot of the other wild shit people claim microsoft does every day.

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          8 months ago

          What I see a lot of the time is default pdf viewers and the like being left on Edge. They also hide the default browser setting in outlook to default to Edge.

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      8 months ago

      It never reset the setting for me either, but it definitely doesn’t always respect your wishes. It just goes ahead and opens certain links in edge despite the setting.

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      8 months ago

      Sometimes after an update (luckily I never update my windows because I use it once every 2 months), it will start edge in a full screen window that I cannot close until it stops doing its stupid animation. Maybe I also clicked an I agree button inadvertently, but I never intentionally set edge as default