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Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by noodlejetski@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

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[–] Ascyron@lemmy.one 74 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This behaviour is why I roll my eyes when the edge fanbois are all like "iTs AlL cHrOmE aNyWaY".

Fuck any company that uses their power to try trick people into using their software, yes including google.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“iTs AlL cHrOmE aNyWaY”

This is why I use Firefox.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox still needs to be compatible with the "living standard" as implemented in Chromium, it's how the modern web works 🤷

[–] Ellvix@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean by 'living standard' ?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google's monopolistic and often asinine implementation of web standards that haven't been fully set in stone by the proper internet oversight groups yet, I'd guess?

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Check out the history of WHATWG vs W3C, you might get surprised by which side Mozilla is on, or where did the code for Chromium come from.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

It means a standard that changes in a bottom-up way, usually defined by a reference implementation... instead of by organizing worldwide trips to have meetings, workgroups, and committees, who define whatever they pull out of thin air, then expect developers to implement by pointing to a multi-thousand page PDF that nobody knows if it's possible to implement, much less in an efficient way.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Wait, Edge fanbois are real??

[–] peter@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy to me that Microsoft isn't getting any legal pressure for doing this

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

This isn't the first instance them of di**ing around. They have learnt over time that there is no consequence for such dirty behavior.