Mozilla CEO slams Microsoft in open letter

Mozilla has slammed Microsoft for making it harder for users to change the default browser settings in Windows 10.

In an open letter to the firm, Mozilla’s CEO Chris Beard called the move an “aggressive” one that “overrides users choice on Windows 10” by making users work harder to use browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Google Chrome and others.

“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,” Beard’s letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued.

Firefox will still flash up with an automatic prompt to make it your default browser, however, it is a much longer process than before. On previous systems it would change there and then whereas now it takes you to a new setting page where you then have to choose the default app.

Source: PTI

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