If you have upgraded your computer operating system to the microsoft's new Windows 10, then you might have noticed that the Edge browser has become your default brower.
Mozilla isn't happy with Microsoft's decision to make its Edge the default browser in Windows 10, and Mozilla chief executive has taken his displeasure public
In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has called this lack of choice a very “disturbing aspect of Windows 10”, and called on the tech giant to reverse what he called an "aggressive move to override user choice." While noting that it was still technically possible to preserve users' browser settings, Beard charged that the default setting changes have made the option less obvious.
Beard said that his company contacted Microsoft to discuss its concerns when it first saw Windows 10, but that its efforts "didn't result in any meaningful progress, hence this letter."
In his open letter he wrote as "The upgrade process now appears to be purposefully designed to throw away the choices its customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It's confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.
The Windows 10 upgrade doesn't uninstall rival browsers from users' machines, but if users choose to restore Chrome or Firefox as their default browsers, they must launch their browser of choice and go through a couple of steps to instruct Windows 10 of their preference. Illustrating the process, Mozilla created a tutorial to help Firefox users upgrading to Windows 10 restore their browser preferences.
The different versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still accounts for over 52 per cent of global web traffic. Mozilla’s Firefox is just under 10 per cent, while Chrome has over 17 per cent of the share.
Microsoft says its’ new Windows 10 operating system is now running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the software was released.
So, it seems default browser change in windows 10 will significantly reduce the number of mozilla firefox users.
Read the full open letter of Mozilla CEO at [ Ссылка ]
