Microsoft plans to somehow force users to use Edge as a browser, but Firefox has come to the rescue and, using the same tricks as Redmond’s, has made it easier for users to choose the default browser.
Windows 11 has not yet been officially released, but the controversies regarding the new version of Microsoft’s operating system started from day one. The communication from those in Redmond has been quite disastrous and many users still have doubts about everything that needs to be accomplished in order for their teams to receive the update..
Not only has controversy been created regarding everything necessary to be able to update, there is also controversy due to the novelties that it is going to implement Microsoft in this new version of your operating system. The main complaint has been the new way of choosing a browser as the default.
And, is that, in Windows 10 the choice of a browser was to visit the system settings and choose the default browser. What happens is that, in reality, this method is not as comfortable as it seems, but we have gotten used to doing it and therefore it is very simple. Microsoft has decided that in Windows 11 this will be complicated.
What Microsoft intends to do is that with its new version of the operating system the choice of the browser is based on file types and links, although this will be confirmed with the official arrival of Windows 11. Firefox wanted to anticipate all this and what it has done is to update its browser so that nothing has to be configured from the Windows settings.
It will only be necessary to run Firefox for the first time for the browser itself to launch a message asking the user if they want this browser to be the default. If the user accepts, Firefox will alter the configuration in the settings to become the browser to use from now on.
This change makes it easier for users to browser choice and, in addition, it avoids all the complications that Microsoft has put to make this change. Firefox seems to have gotten serious with Windows 11 and wants users to have it really easy, we will have to wait to see if Chrome follows in its footsteps.