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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:50PM
Pale Moon [palemoon.org], a Firefox derivative, lets you override the diktats of web pages, like a good browser should. Set the following to 'false' using the "web page" about:config - "media.autoplay.enabled" and "media.autoplay.allowscripted".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @08:07PM
While that will avert the stated problem, it still wastes bandwidth and pageload time on things that are clearly unneeded and unwanted.
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