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It’s time to do the right thing, Microsoft

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Oh no Microsoft accidentally switched the default browsers of the 5 Vivaldi users to Edge.

There are 5 of us?

Nearly half a dozen!

It's time to do the right thing, Vivaldi. Open up the source.

When does Microsoft change the default browser to Edge? I have vague memories of seeing the speed of Edge touted during the Windows 8 to Windows 10 upgrade process, but I also remember being promoted to change my default browser from Edge after the upgrade, without needing to monkey around in Control Center.

I don't think anyone likes Edge.

It is not that bad. RES works, LastPass works, Adblocker is fine and on my mobile device, Edge is (for me) the best joice. Yes, it might not be the best browser out there, but Firefox and Chrome just eat up too many resources.

But on desktop I switch between Opera and Vivaldi, and I like them both.

The reasoning from MS perspective is probably that it switches the browser choice because they believe it is the best browser on Windows and the users' decision to switch was simply an incorrect one.

"...we also believe that your computing cycles are better used elsewhere. Thus, your computer is now being farmed out as a part of a computing platform; your decision to use it for your purposes was incorrect." Is that the logical conclusion you're trying to reach?

(There is an obvious, much darker parable about consent, but I'm not going to use that)

Actually, I like Edge. It's not my daily browser, and won't be unless it gets ported to macOS, but I use it about a third of the time on my home PC.

I have never seen the problem this post refers to. My default browser is Chrome, and has remained such ever since I installed Windows 10. W10 doesn't mess with my settings.

The post doesn't list any differentiating features of Vivaldi. It just talks about Microsoft's alleged disregard to user's default browser selection. Admittedly, I bought a Windows 10 laptop recently, that's been through multiple OS updates, while retaining my default browser selection.

The post doesn't explain why Vivaldi over Firefox, chrome or edge.

Who said it was it supposed to? Not every corporate blog post has to be a direct sales pitch.

Huh? Why would you expect this to be covered in this article?

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