To use Edge, even to just download anything, you need to go through a lengthy setup process, are nudged towards logging into a Microsoft account, and need to sign away all your rights.
On Firefox, the setup is literally: Dark or light? Dark, K, glhf.
Edge will then tell you, multiple times, that it’s better than chrome etc. and you shouldn’t download another browser. Then it will even ask you why you chose another browser.
Firefox will not ask anything.
And finally, uninstalling Edge on Windows is impossible outside the EU, and I doubt it’s already possible in the EU.
You can uninstall Firefox on any OS, preinstalled or not, as many times as you want.
And of course, on Linux, you would not even open the browser to change it. There’s the package manager or app store for that. On Windows … you’re pretty much forced to do it, except if you curl the installer manually, which is very tedious to do.
Boo!
Yay!
It’s not “shipping with a browser” that was ever the problem.
Boo!
Yay!
My OS doesn’t but my DE does
One of those is a good browser.
To use Edge, even to just download anything, you need to go through a lengthy setup process, are nudged towards logging into a Microsoft account, and need to sign away all your rights.
On Firefox, the setup is literally: Dark or light? Dark, K, glhf.
Edge will then tell you, multiple times, that it’s better than chrome etc. and you shouldn’t download another browser. Then it will even ask you why you chose another browser.
Firefox will not ask anything.
And finally, uninstalling Edge on Windows is impossible outside the EU, and I doubt it’s already possible in the EU.
You can uninstall Firefox on any OS, preinstalled or not, as many times as you want.
And of course, on Linux, you would not even open the browser to change it. There’s the package manager or app store for that. On Windows … you’re pretty much forced to do it, except if you curl the installer manually, which is very tedious to do.
“lengthy”
Lulz
The latter can be deleted and replaced with no issue