{"id":275225,"date":"2018-09-12T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=275225"},"modified":"2018-09-12T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:08:13","slug":"windows-10-warns-users-not-to-install-chrome-and-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/275225-windows-10-warns-users-not-to-install-chrome-and-firefox.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 warns users not to install Chrome and Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest Windows 10 Insider preview build includes a pop-up warning when users attempt to install Google Chrome or Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Upon opening the installation program for either of these browsers, Windows 10 opens a window which warns against installing the browser &#8211; stating that users &#8220;already have Microsoft Edge &#8211; the safer, faster browser for Windows 10&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Users can choose to open Microsoft Edge or install the third-party browser, and they can choose to disable future warnings by following a link to their OS Settings.<\/p>\n<p>Testers have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techdows.com\/2018\/09\/windows-10-warns-to-open-edge-instead-of-installing-firefox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a><\/strong> that this window pops up when attempting to install Chrome and Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>This version of Windows 10 is currently only available to Windows 10 Insiders, but will be rolled out to the public as part of Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 10 October 2018 update.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanKHoffman\/status\/1039573136168169475<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/272033-your-phone-app-now-available-to-all-windows-10-users.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Your Phone app now available to all Windows 10 users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest Windows 10 Insider preview build includes a pop-up warning when users attempt to install Google Chrome or Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":275229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,981,123,30102,26970],"class_list":["post-275225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275239,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275225\/revisions\/275239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}