The report acknowledges that “Edge is a relatively minor player.
Users asked to import Google data into Edge Mozilla The researchers warn that “users may be alarmed when they see the Edge promotional message appear within the Chrome download page, reasoning that since the banner is unusual it must be very important.”
If the user decides to install Chrome, the report shows how Microsoft interrupts the install, claiming security and privacy benefits of Edge. It is also pinned to the taskbar and can’t be uninstalled. With a fresh Windows desktop, users find Edge pre-installed and set as the default. And so it serves as a warning to those users. Because, in reality, most Windows users by the numbers will install Chrome. And its website warns that Chrome’s “privacy record is questionable… Google actually collects a disturbingly large amount of data from its users-Google runs the world’s largest advertising network, thanks in large part to data they harvest from their users.”īut the report that Mozilla has just published is not really about Edge competing for users with Firefox. “Chrome is the only major browser that does not offer meaningful protection against cross-site tracking,” it has said of the long-delayed removal of tracking cookies from Chrome. Mozilla is no fan of Chrome, to say the least.
