Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again / Microsoft has a history of tricks to get you to use Edge, and the latest one targets Chrome users once again

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Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again
theverge.com

Microsoft clearly isn’t bothered that it’s automatically starting up Edge on people’s PC and then trying to trick them into importing their Chrome data. That’s not too surprising though since Microsoft has been pulling tricks like this for more than four years now.

Microsoft’s behavior here makes many people distrust Edge, Windows 11, and even the company’s AI efforts.

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Jokes on them, I don't use chrome

Jokes on them, I don’t use Windows

Jokes on them, Edge doesn't respect my GTK theme.

It's not my main but I do have edge installed on Linux. I keep it around That's both a vanilla Chrome install and the GPT-4 interface.

I keep most of my AI local but once in a while I need something that's outside of the llama realm