The battles in the browser market seem to have never stopped. Even though Microsoft’s Microsoft Edge browser has switched to Chromium in 2020, it has become the same kind of Chrome browser, but “WindowsLatest” recently discovered that when Windows 11 users use Edge to visit Chrome to download web pages, Edge will pop up a message stating that Edge and Chrome are based on the same technology, plus the trust provided by Microsoft, in an attempt to interfere with users downloading Chrome.
And “BleepingComputer” further pointed out that Microsoft stores 5 different messages in Edge to pop up when users visit the Chrome download page, including claiming that Chrome is an old browser in 2008 and that Microsoft Edge is the future of browsing. Microsoft Edge is the only browser optimized for Windows 10; Microsoft Edge is the best browser for online shopping; and Microsoft Edge is a fast, safe and recommended browser by Microsoft.
However, when Microsoft Edge users visited the Chrome Web Store last year, the market also advised users to switch to the Chrome browser, and attached a download link for the Chrome browser.
The browser industry has surprisingly attracted the promotion of their own browsers, but Microsoft took advantage of the high market share of the Windows operating system and has more advantages. For example, last year, it also promoted Microsoft Edge in the start menu of Windows 10, or let Users accidentally set Edge as the default browser, and the change procedures are complicated. In order to counter Microsoft’s practices, Mozilla bypassed Microsoft’s anti-hijacking protection, allowing Windows users to set Firefox as the default browser with one click. Device.
At present, Chrome is still the world‘s most popular browser, with a market share of 64%, followed by Safari with 19.23%, as for Edge with 4.19%, and Firefox with 3.9% ranking fourth.