I have noticed some aggressive tactics used by Microsoft, and possibly Google to encourage end users to switch from use of Mozilla products such as Firefox Desktop browser.
I did suggest in an appropriate Mozilla ( Marketing - SuMo ) support site that maybe Mozilla should at least try to counter this with their own blogs and official Knowledge Base articles. I can not link (publicly) to that suggestion at the moment due to issues with Mozilla's Forum software. On Wednesday, 18 January 2017 09:31:05 UTC, Ansgar Koene wrote: > On this computer I use Windows 10 with Firefox set as default browser. > > The icon for Microsoft's Windows 10 integrated browser 'Edge' just gave me > a pop-up saying 'Edge is safer than Firefox against malware attacks' [I > paraphrase, I closed the pop-up and don't remember the exact wording]. I > was not using Edge at the time. > > Is this kind of advertising feature something that all installed software > on my computer can do in Windows 10 or is this a case of leverageing the OS > dominance to boost their web-brower adoption? Remind anyone of the 1990s > anti-trust case against Microsoft's browser bundling? > > Sincerely, > Ansgar Koene > > > -- > Ansgar Koene, > Horizon Digital Economics Research > University of Nottingham, UK > http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ > http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ > http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ > https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
