{"id":275967,"date":"2018-09-18T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=275967"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:43:46","slug":"windows-10-drops-chrome-and-firefox-install-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/275967-windows-10-drops-chrome-and-firefox-install-warning.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 drops Chrome and Firefox install warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has pulled the Chrome and Firefox browser warning in Windows 10, following an outcry from users.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Windows 10 Insider preview build included a pop-up <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/275225-windows-10-warns-users-not-to-install-chrome-and-firefox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>warning<\/strong><\/a> when users attempted to install Google Chrome or Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Upon opening the installation program for either of these browsers, Windows 10 opened a window which warned against installing the browser \u2013 stating that users \u201calready have Microsoft Edge \u2013 the safer, faster browser for Windows 10\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A new report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/9\/17\/17868946\/microsoft-windows-10-warning-prompt-chrome-firefox-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> states that Microsoft is now reversing its decision to include this warning.<\/p>\n<p>The warning will therefore not appear in the\u00a0upcoming Windows 10 October 2018 Update.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/275941-twitter-brings-back-reverse-chronological-timeline.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter brings back reverse-chronological timeline<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has pulled the Chrome and Firefox browser warning in Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":275229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,15725,981,123,807],"class_list":["post-275967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-edge","tag-firefox","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275967"}],"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=275967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275969,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275967\/revisions\/275969"}],"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=275967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}