Windows 10 has changed many settings by default and one of them is the web browser. If you have installed Windows 10 by now then you must have seen that the new Windows has changed the default browser to Microsoft Edge. Not only that it has become difficult for users to change back to Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
This very gesture has been disliked by Mozilla and the CEO of Mozilla Mr. Chris Beard is quite annoyed with the new change. But what you can do now? If you have nit yet installed Windows 10 or upgraded your existing Windows to Windows 10, then you can choose the option of default browser when the first time you are launching the browser. Next you can open the Setting option and go to System and then Default Apps. You will find a list of Default Apps for your Windows 10. Go to Web browser and see that the default browser is Microsoft Edge. Tap on it and change it to the one you like.
Check out the open letter below:
Satya,
I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.
When we first saw the Windows 10 upgrade experience that strips users of their choice by effectively overriding existing user preferences for the Web browser and other apps, we reached out to your team to discuss this issue. Unfortunately, it didn’t result in any meaningful progress, hence this letter.
We appreciate that it’s still technically possible to preserve people’s previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It’s confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.
Mozilla exists to bring choice, control and opportunity to everyone. We build Firefox and our other products for this reason. We build Mozilla as a non-profit organization for this reason. And we work to make the Internet experience beyond our products represent these values as much as we can.
Sometimes we see great progress, where consumer products respect individuals and their choices. However, with the launch of Windows 10 we are deeply disappointed to see Microsoft take such a dramatic step backwards.
These changes aren’t unsettling to us because we’re the organization that makes Firefox. They are unsettling because there are millions of users who love Windows and who are having their choices ignored, and because of the increased complexity put into everyone’s way if and when they choose to make a choice different than what Microsoft prefers.
We strongly urge you to reconsider your business tactic here and again respect people’s right to choice and control of their online experience by making it easier, more obvious and intuitive for people to maintain the choices they have already made through the upgrade experience. It also should be easier for people to assert new choices and preferences, not just for other Microsoft products, through the default settings APIs and user interfaces.
Please give your users the choice and control they deserve in Windows 10.
Sincerely,
Chris Beard
CEO, Mozilla
Seems like microsoft does not only want to take over but make a few rivals