Protip: Microsoft uses social media manipulation to shape public opinion. Some of those people claiming that were on a payroll.
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le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
So where are the people saying edge couldn’t be uninstalled because it’s a core part of the system that other element depended upon. I swear I have seen this answer on every reddit post about uninstalling edge, yet Microsoft show its absolutely possible (although only in Europe, because dependencies don’t work the same in Europe 😂).
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sure it’s just uninstalling the browser chrome. The backend is woven into too many MS products to be completely removed.
nutt_goblin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kinda yeah. WebView2 is edge (chromium) based and definitely is not uninstalled by uninstalling edge. But it won’t have the browser chrome or the MS Account association (for now, we all know it’s possible for ms to make things worse 💀)
arin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kinda hard to download a browser without a browser
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 8 months ago
winget install firefoxsunbeam60@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Ah yes, I’ll tell my mom that.
Of course the real way to do it is force a browser choice on OOBE.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably be able to redownload it through the MS store.
root@precious.net 8 months ago
There are other protocols on the internet you know…
dont_lemmee_down@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If windows ships curl, then it’s easy!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A lot of apps do use Edge as an embedded control to display web content. (Back before Edge was a thing, they would do the same thing with Internet Explorer.) Doing this is the path of the least resistance to whoever is developing these pieces of shit, since they can (up until now) expect Edge to be present on the user’s system without having to cart around their own copy of a web browser and keep it updated in perpetuity with all the potential security holes not doing so could bring, yadda yadda yadda. Uninstalling Edge will indeed cause those particular programs to break.
There is now also the “Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime Environment” (via) which may or may not be able to run on its own even if the regular user-facing version of Edge is uninstalled – I have no idea, and I haven’t tried.
root@precious.net 8 months ago
That’s what they said about Internet Explorer right up until the moment where Microsoft wanted everyone to switch to Edge. Not only could you suddenly uninstall it, but it even started uninstalling itself!
Funny how that happens
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Wasn’t it actually a core component until they phase it out in Win7 or Win8? AFAIK (at least on WinXP) the entirety of GUI is rendered from the IE.