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Charles Petzold is a God amongst programmers. His "Programming Windows 3.1" book was the foundation of my company. Still going strong twenty-five years later.

I loathe MS Edge. In spite of explicitly setting my default file associations to my preferred applications, every other day Windows insists on resetting PDF, JPG etc. to Edge. Va te faire foutre.

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> In spite of explicitly setting my default file associations to my preferred applications

And getting griped at by Windows for doing it, too.

"Oh won't you pleeeeeeease consider using the Strongest, Securest, Bestest, Most Wonderfulest Browser Out There, the amazing Microsoft Edge instead of whatever piece of shit blob of code you downloaded from the very untrustworthy dark Interweb?!?"

No, Windows browser team, I want to use Firefox and just like Google pushing their browser on their platform I resent you pushing yours.

The funny thing is that this may actually be true

>Strongest, Securest, Bestest,

Strongest because it's Chromium

"Securest" once they disable JIT

LOL this reminds me of IE on Windows Server. In order to keep your server secure, they put IE in "Enhanced Security Configuration" mode which breaks the entire web. It cracks me up that the only way IE is secure, is when it's useless. It's basically an admission that IE was not secure enough to run in default mode, when it's only going to be used on a server by someone experienced enough with tech to set up a server. But those regular desktop pelbs, you all can just have insecure IE.

To their credit, the enhanced security configuration does turn off JS and reduces other attack surface significantly. Also, IE has a very useful black/whitelisting feature called Internet Zones (which Edge removed, not surprisingly) so you can allow those features on sites you really do trust.

"breaks the entire web" is really an exaggeration from the Google-propaganda-pushers. You don't all the extra crap like JS when you're just looking at static pages. A lot of sites are fine without. This site doesn't need JS either.

Edge lost its value proposition after becoming just another Chromium shell wannabe. Original, native Edge used to have a great epub reader and had less resource consumption.

This a work computer or a personal one?

My work computer resets my preferences after each reboot (which I only do when system updates come down). Otherwise, it sticks. Personal computer keeps my defaults.

It's both work and personal (Windows 10). I run my own small business. I don't have a "corporate policy".

I was under the impression that Windows somehow challenges apps by performing some type of test, and resets the file associations "for the user's safety" if the apps don't respond appropriately.

May want to look into it with support or something, this isn’t normal behavior. It should retain your defaults (it does on the Windows machines and Windows VMs I’ve made or worked on. My work laptop being the only one that doesn’t and that’s a corporate thing).

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