FourWinds10.com - Delivering Truth Around the World
Custom Search

Mozilla is uhappy with Microsoft over Windows 10 Changes

The Unhived Mind

Smaller Font Larger Font RSS 2.0

August 1, 2015

Mozilla is unhappy with Microsoft over Windows 10 changes

blogger-avatarby Mariella Moon | @mariella_moon | 23 Hours Ago

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/31/mozilla-windows-10/

If you’re one of the millions of people who’ve already upgraded to Windows 10, you’ve probably noticed that the OS changed your default apps. Your main browser, for instance, suddenly became Microsoft Edge after the upgrade — something Mozilla finds “disturbing,” especially since the platform actually made it trickier to switch back to Chrome, Firefox or any other browser. In an open letter to Microsoft head honcho Satya Nadella, Mozilla’s CEO Chris Beard revealed that the non-profit got in touch with the Windows 10 team when it got wind of the change, but that “didn’t result in any meaningful progress.”

Beard wrote (emphasis ours):

…the update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.

We appreciate that it’s still technically possible to preserve people’s previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. 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.

Now, in order to switch your default browser, you’ll need to tick the check box asking if you want to make Firefox or Chrome your default the first time you launch either. Then, you’ll have to find “Web browser” under Default apps in the Settings page that pops up and click the Edge icon to find alternatives in the drop-down menu. The video below can show you those steps more clearly:

As for Microsoft, it stands by its decision and told The Verge that it will only change features and aspects of Windows 10 that users don’t like:

We designed Windows 10 to provide a simple upgrade experience for users and a cohesive experience following the upgrade. During the upgrade, consumers have the choice to set defaults, including for web browsing. Following the upgrade, they can easily choose the default browser of their choice. As with all aspects of the product, we have designed Windows 10 as a service; if we learn from user experience that there are ways to make improvements, we will do so.

Update: Edited to add that the Web Browser section is under Default Apps.

http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress3/mozilla-is-unhappy-with-microsoft-over-windows-10-changes/#comment-5099

theunhivedmind

August 1, 2015 at 7:01 am

I strongly suggest you do not upgrade your Windows to Windows 10. This new operating system is a severe let down and no where near as good as Windows 8.1. I found it clumsy, long-winded as well as a resource hog. If you have a Hewlett Packard machine then forget it because you won’t have any coolsense for the CPU temperatures as just one example. Of course you’ll see TV adverts selling HP’s with Windows 8.1 bragging you get a free Windows 10 upgrade but they purposely forget to tell you about coolsense etc. Why? Well then your CPU will take a bigger hammering and then you’re likely to need a new PC quicker. Stick with Windows 8.1 at least for a few months. I found numerous software didn’t work with Windows 10 like Opera Developer couldn’t download without crashing and a popular download manager failing to download files. As I said the system is very clumsy and if you want to change the power of the laptop then you’ll go through numerous options where as on W81 you get the two power options instantly with no need to enter menus. Trust me W10 is a big let down, the menu is crap and I found the search function useless compared to W81. So guess what I did? I made an image of Windows 10 and then reverted back to my W81 image and that’s where I’m staying. Now we know Kim Dotcom exposed how Microsoft spies on Windows users via the Windows update. In Windows 10 you’re forced to have the update permanently on and thus give Microsoft even easier access to the PC. My advise is stick to Windows 7 or 8.1 and then maybe look at a Linux distribution like ChaletOS, Zorin or Elementary OS. Windows 10 is a resource hog and now I’m back to W81 I’m flying in comparison and I use an iCore5 processor which is no slouch. The only reason I don’t use Linux any more is because the operating system tends to have bad power management which doesn’t come close to Windows 8.1 with the energy software built-in.

´¨)

.·´ ¸.·¨) ¸.·¨)

(¸.·´ (¸.*´ ¸.·´

`·-The Unhived Mind

https://sites.google.com/site/chaletoslinux/home

https://elementary.io/

http://zorin-os.com/