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posted by GreatOutdoors on Sunday November 27 2016, @02:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the of-course-my-software-is-safer dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft has turned on a new set of Windows Tips that inform Chrome and Firefox users on Windows 10 that Edge is a "safer" browser. We reached out to Microsoft to find out how long this latest recommendation has been active. "This wave of Windows Tips for Windows 10 users began in early November," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.

If this sounds familiar, that's because Microsoft turned on similar Windows 10 tips back in July, warning Chrome/Firefox users about battery drain and then recommending Edge instead. Those notifications were on the battery icon in the operating system, while this new one is on the Edge icon:

[...] The battery drain "tip" was timed with Microsoft's battery-savings campaign for Edge, and this security one is no different. NSS Labs compared the security of the three major Windows browsers and unsurprisingly — Microsoft has a long history of asking NSS Labs to do a study in which its browser comes out on top, though it claims this one wasn't commissioned — Edge won in a particular metric. That's where the "It blocks 21% more socially engineered malware" part from the notification comes from.

See a previous related article Here [soylentnews.org]

Would you change your software based on a recommendation like this?


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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:17AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:17AM (#433530) Homepage Journal

    I used Firefox for a long time basically for this reason before giving up and switching over to Chrome/Chromium. Firefox just seems very bloated and slow to say the least these days, and I think a lot of it is fundamental as I haven't gotten a much better experience out of Pale Moon. AdBlock for Chrome seems to mostly do the job as is.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:51AM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:51AM (#433563) Journal

    I've noticed that recent versions of Firefox seem slow. It can take several seconds for a cursor to appear after navigating to a text input. Not sure when Firefox started slipping there, maybe around version 44, or perhaps it was much earlier, around version 26, that sluggishness snuck back in and very slowly grew worse.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:46PM (#434003)

    I was gobsmacked to discover that Firefox left no mechanism available to the user to prevent sites from autoplaying media. The particular annoyance was on sites like youtube, where once the site was given permission to load scripts and media in ONE tab, every subsequent tab from the same site would immediately start autoplaying.

    Pale Moon [palemoon.org] has the expected sane user-accessible knobs to tweak to kill that sort of stupid behavior: "media.autoplay.enabled" and "media.autoplay.allowscripted", with the latter denying youtube the ability to "click its own 'play' button".

    Pale Moon has also rejected much of the dubious "feature" explosion of Firefox - using it as a browser feels a lot like "Firefox from the good ol days", while still working with the current-day web.