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Windows Support (shitposting)

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oh my god i had NO IDEA windows could break!!

(not actual tech support, just linux shitposting lol)

(no hate to Windows users though, Windows is a perfectly valid choice for many people <3)

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Windows 11 refuses to make Firefox my default browser (iusearchlinux.fyi)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Recently I decided to make the decision to change my browser to Firefox after my 16 year-old-son said it was "based". When navigating to the download page from Microsoft Edge, it claimed that Edge was better than Firefox because it had 60% of the features and none of the privacy. Despite the tempting claims, I proceeded anyway and set Firefox as my default browser. After a couple of days, I went to turn on my computer, and it said it was "installing updates"; when it booted on, Firefox was gone from my computer, and Edge was set as the default browser! I brushed this off as a bug, but the same thing happened four days later! What did I do wrong?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

According to Microsoft using FF is wrong and they reset a lot of stuff to defaults when updating.

They probably say it's to avoid soft-bricking but probably it's just to check if you care enough to go to the settings page.