Mozilla recently changed the way it moved to Firefox from the default Edge in Windows.
It is known from Windows 10 onwards that Microsoft has a method of switching default browsers in Windows 10, which is not simple, at least it is not done with one click.
As we mentioned in an earlier post, with Windows 11 things have gotten a lot worse.
Well Mozilla seems to be really tired of this whole situation.
In the version 91 on Firefox, released on August 10, Mozilla has managed to change the way Microsoft changes the browser it uses to make it difficult to change its Edge.
The company now allows Firefox to become your default browser very quickly.
With the reverse engineering of Mozilla you can set Firefox as default directly from the browser without having to go to Windows settings.
Mozilla is apparently fed up with the complicated way of setting a default browser, a process that Microsoft makes even more difficult for Windows 11.
"Everyone should be able to set their defaults simply and easily, but they can't," a Mozilla spokesman told The Verge.
“All operating systems should offer support for defaults applications, ώστε οι χρήστες να μπορούν εύκολα να ορίσουν τις εφαρμογές που θέλουν σαν προεπιλεγμένες. Αυτό δεν συμβαίνει στα Windows 10 και 11, και ο Firefox χρησιμοποιεί άλλες πτυχές του περιβάλλοντος των Windows για να δώσει στους people an experience similar to what Windows provides for Edge when they choose Firefox as their default browser.”
Mozilla has long sought to persuade Microsoft to improve its default browser settings in an open letter to Microsoft in 2015.
Nothing has changed and Windows 11 makes it even harder to switch between default browsers. So Mozilla started implementing its own changes to Firefox shortly after Windows 11 was introduced in June.
So far, Google, Vivaldi, Opera and other Chromium-based browsers have not followed Mozilla's example, and we do not know exactly how Microsoft will respond.
Microsoft of course states that Edge is the most secure browser for Windows, and it does all this for them better safety.
