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    • ObsolesceO
      Obsolesce
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      It's designed and marketed towards schools. If you aren't a school then I wouldn't be considering it in the first place... and wouldn't be bothered by the Edge-only restriction.

      But, maybe schools have a need to allow students to use Firefox/chrome/etc. because some things won't work in Edge... in such case I can see heavily complaining about it.

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce
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        My only complaint with Edge so far, is that starting with the Creator's Update (1703), clicking on notifications here give an error, unless you open them in a new tab (middle-click your mouse).

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch
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          They are only blocking the ability to change the default browser. Not that you cannot install another browser. A bunch of hot air is all this shit is.

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          • ObsolesceO
            Obsolesce @JaredBusch
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            @JaredBusch said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

            They are only blocking the ability to change the default browser. Not that you cannot install another browser. A bunch of hot air is all this shit is.

            Ah, well then I misunderstood.

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            • ObsolesceO
              Obsolesce
              last edited by

              On a Chromebook, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, etc.?

              On an iPad, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome, etc.?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                @JaredBusch said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                They are only blocking the ability to change the default browser. Not that you cannot install another browser. A bunch of hot air is all this shit is.

                It's still very crappy. And they didn't block secondary browsers in Windows 98 either.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                  @Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                  On a Chromebook, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, etc.?

                  On an iPad, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome, etc.?

                  The import thing is that you CAN set them to NOT Edge.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
                    last edited by

                    @Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                    My only complaint with Edge so far, is that starting with the Creator's Update (1703), clicking on notifications here give an error, unless you open them in a new tab (middle-click your mouse).

                    I haven't tried it under Creators. But it didn't work for me one edition back.

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                      @Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                      On a Chromebook, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, etc.?

                      On an iPad, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome, etc.?

                      The import thing is that you CAN set them to NOT Edge.

                      Yeah, well you see... it's no different than what other vendors are doing with their restrictive OSs.... it just so happens that Edge is new and people need to fix their programming 😛

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                        @Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                        @Tim_G said in Windows 10 S Blocks Changes to Default Browser:

                        On a Chromebook, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, etc.?

                        On an iPad, can you set your default browser to Firefox, IE, Edge, Chrome, etc.?

                        The import thing is that you CAN set them to NOT Edge.

                        Yeah, well you see... it's no different than what other vendors are doing with their restrictive OSs.... it just so happens that Edge is new and people need to fix their programming 😛

                        runs away

                        Yeah... that's the issue.

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