winget install Mozilla.Firefox
It’s the only browser we can use in my office, so have gotten pretty used to it. It’s honestly not that bad, they’ve come a long way since the IE days.
It’s not my home-use browser, but it’s absolutely serviceable.
Yeah… it’s Chrome now
It’s chrome but with ram management. Microsoft solved the issue somehow, so edge with 1000 tabs doesn’t big things down like chrome with 1000 tabs does.
I know it’s cool to hate on it, but Edge is legit my favorite browser. All the tools and functionality of chrome and it’s extensions, with all the office and student tools that come in Edge.
Stuff like the Immersive Reader, Cite Tools, Collections, and a bunch of other stuff make it my favorite browser for now.
Nothing against people liking Edge, but not being able to uninstall it by normal means made me dump Windows entirely. I mean, wtf? Not being able to uninstall a browser? Like, what?
You dumped an OS over not being able to uninstall the default browser? Wat
In the same vein, I change roms on my phone when I can’t remove default preinstalled apps.
Yes. Because I don’t want that software so why can’t I uninstall it. Same goes for basically every default program on windows. It’s like not being able remove the ugly lights from the previous owner in your flat even though you got some new nice ones.
You can’t uninstall Safari from Mac either, but I haven’t seen a single cry for that.
Forcefully setting Edge as default browser is definitely a bad behaviour by Microsoft, but thankfully there are one-click solution for that.
You don’t hear people complain about Apple (anymore) because it’s accepted that you are buying into a walled-garden ecosystem when you buy Apple. That’s kinda its whole thing.
There are a few issues with Edge on Windows, one being set as the default out of the box, another being it’s inability to be uninstalled, another being it’s the only option when using windows built-on search, and yet another being it’s anything-but-one-click solution depending on the version of Windows in question. In some versions, you have to still go into default apps, find the browser you want, set it as default, click around the popup begging you to try Edge anyway, then go down the list of file extensions and select your browser for all the ones it doesn’t change on its own when you make it the default, some of which may popup again begging you to try Edge first. And when that’s done, you still can’t uninstall it or make it not open when using windows search.
For a product marketed as the opposite of a walled garden, it really is frustrating. Especially considering older versions of Windows had a built-in browser that could be uninstalled and could set another browser as default with one click from inside the new browser.
Edge has really good PDF editing features built in.
Can someone explain what is the benefit to Microsoft for having their own browser?
One might say regarding use cases, this is an Edge case.
I’ll see myself out.
winget install firefox?winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox.ESRNo need for Edge
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT EDGE THE SUPER OR BROWSWR WE PROMISE NOT TO COLLECT DATA AND STEAL YOUR LIVER
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winget install Mozilla.Firefox
Just saying, you can ignore their existence entirely.
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Psh, don’t even need that, just use a package manager
What Windows package manager? 😂
You can do it with winget: winget install Mozilla.Firefox
It was the only way I could annotate PDFs without paying money using a Wacom One Tablet and a stylus in MacOS. That was one useful use.
Could you expand on this please?
So, it gets kind of complicated, but basically I bought the Wacom One to use as a drawing tablet with Windows, Linux, and MacOS for PC/laptop drawing programs like Krita and Corel Painter (Humble Bundle purchase). Also had an iPad Pro that was slightly busted to take notes on PDFs of Powerpoints using GoodReader. Now I can’t remember if I failed to bring it with me or if it wasn’t working, but I only had my MacBook Pro and and the Wacom tablet to take notes with for a couple of months. Apple’s default PDF viewer Preview and even an app I had paid for a long time ago, Clearview, had no drawing annotation capabilities. But Microsoft Edge has a drawing annotation tool for PDFs that even Firefox doesn’t have. I think it comes from Microsoft Edge being the default PDF viewer in Windows.
thank you. I believe you are correct about edge being the default pdf viewer. Microsoft made edge into a big fat one tool to do everything chrome replacement.
thank you. I believe you are correct about edge being the default pdf viewer. Microsoft made edge into a big fat one tool to do everything chrome replacement.
which turned out to be useful on a Macbook, haha. Annotating PDFs with a drawing tool wouldn’t have been a problem on Linux.
i always just sudo apt install firefox
I install wine, so I can install IE6, so I can download Firefox. And then run it in VMWare in a docker container on my Commodore 64.
Lol not even, I just keep FF installer on USB. No Edge, ever.
Windows is next 👎🏻
Github has a lot of stuff meant to be run after a Windows install that removes as much of the bloat and spyware Microsoft puts on it as in can and downloads and installs programs you want.
Got any links to repos you recommend?
IIRC I used this one with some of the community scripts. winutil is the one that downloads and installs.
Seeing comments like this is like seeing a battered spouse make excuses for their abuser’s behavior. Sure, you could do all those workarounds, but why should you have to put up with it?
Have some self-respect, kick Windows to the curb, and get an OS that actually respects your property rights as owner of the computer by actually doing what you want it to do instead of letting a corporation weaponize it against you.
Literally first thing after installing windows (yes I know, I use AutoCAD and I’m stuck) on my new build was nuke edge off my PC.
It’s such a shame there’s no good CAD programs on Linux, I use Linux at home now, but at work I’m still stuck with windows
Just use FreeCAD! \s
Although you can do things in it. There’s also OpenSCAD but I have never done anything complex in it and I can’t imagine it being used in a professional environment.
Yeah, until they get significantly better i don’t see professionals using anything other than autocad or civil3d. Maybe if governments required dxf instead of dwg for deliverables, but even then, until the alternatives offer a better experience i don’t see anything changing.
I could imagine there being a cause for FreeCAD if it ever gets accepted as the “we don’t want to pay for AutoCAD” solution in some less developed nation education system.
On a more optimistic note, it does seem to be improving with time. Maybe one day it’ll have the Blender transformation happen to it.
Don’t diss my porn browser like that.
A lot of people don’t know this, but you can edge yourself while watching porn on any browser.
