New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser automagically
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser automagically
Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.
Long story short: That pop-up you get when you open Firefox (or whatever other browser) for the first time asking you if you want to make it your default browser won't work anymore. They're forcing you to go through their convoluted control panel where you have to change it like 20 times for each file extension.
Microsoft wants the Year of the Linux Desktop (TM) to come quicker.
Microsoft will get away with this like they did hundreds of times before due to their dominance and the overwhelming apathy of the average computer user
Got tied of broken windows updates and installed Nobara two weeks ago, never going back.
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That's the thing, this type of change is easily bypassed and therefore irrelevant to the vast majority of the people that even would think of switching to Linux when faced by that annoyance.
drink a verification can to confirm your choice
Kinda wild how much they got destroyed for internet Explorer coming pre installed on Windows back in the day. Yet way more egregious shit just keeps happening to no response.
not nearly destroyed enough
Lol I'll never get over the fact that they were forced to put Netscape navigator in the install media back in the 90s because they simply included IE on the disk.
Simpler times.
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if you dont need specific stuff that only runs on windows, linux has none of the corporate bullshit. been using it for years now, and it can even play most games now.
acclimating and relearning can be annoying as fuck but it was worth it.
I swear to god if it wasn't for some very specific software programs that I NEED to use that simply isn't available for Linux (nor Wine) I would have gone 100% Linux many years ago.
dual boot?
I've done it before, it works but it's also a pain in the ass especially when my master boot record went missing mysteriously like three fucking times. I just do dedicated rigs now instead.
I once had the biggest of my boot drives eat the smaller one and then die because there were a lot of duplicate files and indexes.
I've been using a streamed pc service for windows things and it is nice. It isn't the cheapest thing ever and it eats data at incredible rates, but if you have uncapped internet and a cost-permitting reason to need windows it works, at least in my experience
You and me both! It is getting more and more frustrating.
Just wait until they introduce hard-coded, built in AI into WIndows 11, that's when the "fun" will really start.
They're forcing you to go through their convoluted control panel where you have to change it like 20 times for each file extension.
stop lying it is literally ONE CLICK lmao I hate windows too but damn y'all act like the OS isn't incredibly simple. Whether or not it prevents the browser from automatically doing so is neither here nor there - there's no need to lie about how the OS works
I don't know anyone but web developers who would have .htm or .html files that they're actively opening frequently but you realize that is one menu deeper than what I screenshotted and not exactly "20 individual settings" you have to change for your default browser?? Is the average user going to need to worry about .shtml files? But anyways I will be banned for Windows defense if I continue this so
They haven't had to battle enough anti-trust suits so far this year apparently
