Mozilla criticizes Windows 10 browser changes

Whether Beard is, in fact, right or wrong about the merits of the default settings, he does know that they also apply to Google and to many other companies who have so far refrained from writing whiny open letters about it.

What sounds like a Microsoft attack on Firefox actually applies to all default programs.

Microsoft, however, is sticking to its guns for now. But it has one very vocal critic.

You can still make Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or another app your default browser in Windows 10, but it’s not as easy or intuitive to do that as it was in previous versions of Windows. Mozilla released a video to help its users restore their browser preference in Windows 10.

Now, in order to switch your default browser, you’ll need to tick the check box asking if you want to make Firefox or Chrome your default the first time you launch either.

Microsoft says the new browser is “at the edge of modern web standards and capabilities”, hence, the name Edge, according to Mashable.

Lightspeed Systems worked closely with Microsoft to ensure zero-day support for Windows 10, which will be available for phones, tablets and desktop computers. “It is bewildering to see, after nearly 15 years of progress … that with Windows 10, user choice has now been all but removed”.

We designed Windows 10 to provide a simple upgrade experience for users and a cohesive experience following the upgrade.

The good news is that your browser of choice can still retain its spot on your taskbar, and it’s still only a few quick clicks to set it as your default. “They are unsettling because there are millions of users who love Windows and who are having their choices ignored”, he added.

While we believe that users and sites should move away from it, the reality is that for the foreseeable future Flash won’t go away yet. But Microsoft has been fined for doing this sort of antitrust stuff before.

Users over the world are switching over to the “next-gen” Windows 10. The EU approved the plan in December 2009, and Microsoft began rolling it out in early 2010.

With Edge in Windows 10, Microsoft has finally delivered a capable browser to replace the aging Internet Explorer.

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has written an raging open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella regarding a change to Windows 10’s default application settings.

The upgrade to Windows 10 will not uninstall all the browsers by competing companies on the PC.

It’s hardly impossible to navigate, but seems like an unnecessary step designed to make the process more long-winded and confusing. But for non-technical users, the procedure isn’t exactly self-explanatory, and that is Mozilla’s point.

Beard said that the cause of concern was not due to his position in Mozilla, the maker of competing browser Firefox, but because of the Microsoft’s lack of respect in respecting the choices that users have previously made as they used older versions of the Windows operating system.

A representative for Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this report.

Microsoft deliberately limited consumer choice to give itself an unfair advantage, Beard suggested. Windows 10 was designed to revolutionize the platform and not restrict users to what Microsoft wants them to use and do.