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Microsoft stops meddling with Chrome and Firefox installations on Windows 10

September 14, 2018

MICROSOFT HAS STOPPED interfering with Chrome and Firefox installation on Windows 10, claiming its nagging pop-ups were just a ‘test’ for Insiders.

Earlier this week, Beta News caught wind of the latest unsavoury trick Microsoft had up its sleeve to stop you moving away from Edge, which appeared in the 1809 Insider’s build of Windows 10.

When users opened Edge and used Bing to search for “Chrome” or “Firefox”, a massive banner appeared with all the subtlety of HAL 9000 trying to prevent David Bowman opening the airlock in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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