Microsoft Edge flags Firefox installer

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Microsoft Edge flags Firefox installer

Microsoft's Edge browser was recently found to be blocking users from downloading Mozilla Firefox, one of its main competitors.

Recent Reddit threads showed that the browser was prohibiting users from downloading the regular stable version of Firefox, as well as the non-stable Developer, Beta, and Nightly releases.

When trying to download these from the official Mozilla website, users were presented with the warning "Firefox Installer.exe was blocked because it could harm your device".
 
Thanks for that 4 day old news story.
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Gets blocked as not downloaded often enough yet, once enough people do it gets added to the MS list of good programs.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Thanks for that 4 day old news story.
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TL;DR;
Gets blocked as not downloaded often enough yet, once enough people do it gets added to the MS list of good programs.
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The thing with news like this is that it is destined to be trolled. One person would report an experienced issue on Reddit, and many who haven't ever experienced the issue will add that they also experienced the same issue.

It is how it always goes. It is extremely hard to siphon through community groups.

For example, on Steam, you cannot contribute to technical discussions when you don’t own the title as a purchase. The reason is quite obvious because those threads will become intoxicated and trolled hence general discussions are what it is.
 
backstreetboy said:
Why would you want to downgrade anyway?
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You mean downgrade from Edge to Firefox?

I thought FF was garbage until I used it on macOS. The text rendering is miles better, which was basically my only problem with it on Windows. And Firefox Developer Edition is pretty amazing for developers, and renders noticeably faster than regular Firefox for some reason.

These days I use only Safari and FF DE.
 
Bryn said:
You mean downgrade from Edge to Firefox?

I thought FF was garbage until I used it on macOS. The text rendering is miles better, which was basically my only problem with it on Windows. And Firefox Developer Edition is pretty amazing for developers, and renders noticeably faster than regular Firefox for some reason.

These days I use only Safari and FF DE.
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For everything other than general browsing I use FF DE.
 
system32 said:
Smart, knowledgeable, security aware, power users download and use FF.
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Lol https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

Chromium is vastly more secure than Firefox. Firefox's sandboxing and exploit mitigations are much weaker than Chromium's. This article is not blindly hating on Firefox but is a factual analysis of its weaknesses.

Other Security Researcher Views on Firefox​

Many security experts also share these views about Firefox.
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Fulcrum29 said:
For everything other than general browsing I use FF DE.
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About the same for me. Safari has a rather unfortunate habit of closing or refreshing a tab if it decides that its resource usage is too high for too long. Which is somewhat inconvenient if you're working there.
 
Moosedrool said:
I haven't used Firefox since 2013 or something.
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At the end of the day they're just web browsers. Chrome is nice, Edge is nice, Firefox is nice, Safari is nice, random other browsers like Vivaldi are nice etc.

Your destiny isn't going to be strongly influenced by which browser you roll with. Unless it's IE, in which case you're f**ked.
 
Meh...open up Microsoft Edge, go to Google and at times you get prompted to download Chrome instead.
Much over muchness...better stories to tell!
 
Mostly use FF as they're the ones who follow the HTML spec the most closely, and I like their dev tools more for css grid.

I use all major browsers though due to testing, and e.g. Postman interceptor is chromium extension only.
Bryn said:
At the end of the day they're just web browsers. Chrome is nice, Edge is nice, Firefox is nice, Safari is nice, random other browsers like Vivaldi are nice etc.

Your destiny isn't going to be strongly influenced by which browser you roll with. Unless it's IE, in which case you're f**ked.
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Safari is still crap besides the battery life as everyone else is limited. :p
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
Brave or gtfo

/thread
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It's a real pity they went from sorta-respectable and commendable to just plain cryto-memecentric, link-jacking, home-phoning, future-ad-placing chromium fork, not that any of the others except ungoogled-chromium don't this (and even worse) but the sneaky bait-and-switch of demographics lowers the tier for me.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Mostly use FF as they're the ones who follow the HTML spec the most closely, and I like their dev tools more for css grid.

I use all major browsers though due to testing, and e.g. Postman interceptor is chromium extension only.

Safari is still crap besides the battery life as everyone else is limited. :p
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I like Safari. The gesture animations are nice, battery life is massively better than other browsers from my experience, the address and bookmarks bars conserve more space, and it renders font weights the best of any browser I've used in macOS. I just really like it as a daily driver.

For development I usually use FF DE.
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Everyone is a FF user until Mozilla needs money
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Ha, I've actually donated money to them a while back.

However, I've since switched to Chrome. Had a problem in Firefox but now for the life of me I can't remember what it was. Was big enough to make me switch however.
 
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