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Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Towelieyee@lemm.ee 152 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Friendly reminder that winget comes preinstalled on Windows 11 now.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
You can install Firefox without even opening Edge!

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On Windows 10 too. I always just download from the website or store but I recently experienced the pretty fun of updating my apps over CLI for some reason

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do you need an MS account?

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which is something you will need to do to not accept their privacy invasive terms and conditions that you have to accept before using the bloated data harvesting browser.