Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has blasted Microsoft for overriding user choice and forcing Edge as the default browser in Windows 10. If you had set Firefox or Chrome as your default Web browser in Windows 7 or 8, upgrading to Windows 10 will reset it to Edge instead.
Furthermore, Mozilla claims that it's now much harder to change default apps in Windows 10: "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."
Mozilla clearly isn't happy. Chris Beard not only penned a blog post about Windows 10's heavy-handed treatment of default apps, but he also wrote Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella an open letter, asking him to reconsider. "Please give your users the choice and control they deserve in Windows 10," he pleads.
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