this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
454 points (98.7% liked)
Technology
81933 readers
2681 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It is sadly becoming the standard in business settings. If your IT department is setting Edge as standard, there is not a lot that you can do
My company laptop had both Edge and Chrome installed the first time I started it. Edge is the default and the one with an icon on the taskbar. I'm convinced that most people, at least outside engineering, will use Edge as their main browser.
Luckily for me I have the "Local admin" access so the first thing I do is to download Firefox and set it up as my default browser. On the time reporting site I get warnings that my browser is not Chrome, but it still works without any problems.
It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I'm interviewing for tells me I'd have to use Windows, but clearly that's not a privilege all professions have
My place of work didn't block Chrome or Firefox but they are making it difficult to use.
They literally just wiped the Saved Passwords and Bookmarks off our PCs because...???
Didn't touch Edge, the "supported" browser.