Another attempt by Microsoft to make Edge the default browser with Bing as the default search engine.
Apparently Microsoft started showing alerts to Edge 91 for "using suggested settings of the proletterbrowser" when the updated browser is first launched in Windows 10.
A small pop-up box titled "Help from Microsoft" appears on the new tab page, stating that you need to use Microsoft Edge with Bing as the default search engine for better "performance, privacy and productivity".
As you can see in the image above, there are two options: Use the recommended browser settings (Microsoft Edge with Bing) and Do not update your browser settings.
If you do click in the first choice, the line work or your screen will flash and your default browser will change to Microsoft Edge (with Bing).
This is of course annoying, but the notice appears only once. In some cases, some report that even if they decline the offer, the browser will not respect their decision and will continue to show the notifications after restarting Edge.
How to turn off the "use browser default" notification in Microsoft Edge
If you still see the alert in Microsoft Edge, there is a flag that you can turn off.
- Open Microsoft Edge and the internal edge: // flags address.
- Search for flag edge-show-feature-recommendations
- Set its flag value to "disabled".
- and restart Microsoft Edge
