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How many people who used firefox have been migrated to Win 11? From what I hear, (this could be wrong because I don't really care about win 11 and my eyes are usually glazing over when yet another person is complaining what a dog it it,) it could be getting harder for the average user to set firefox as the default browser.

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I use FF with W11 without any problems

Functioning as it should is good.

The thing to consider here is, do you consider yourself an average user? Most of us here would not care if they didn't have firefox or chrome as their default browser, to myself it's practically meaningless apart from win98 days setting some near useless lump as the default to catch auto activating BS, but to ordinary folk they can get weird ideas they have to use it ... IIRC M$ went to a little bit of trouble to stop people easily making firefox the default browser, and some internal links are edge only without a really good work around. I don't see them going to all that trouble unless there's a slight benefit.

Well, internal documentation (moments when you missclick on ? icon and open it lol) was always IE and then edge as long as I remember, as well as lockscreen image when you click on it. Other than that, windows is respecting my default browser. They do go over-invasive when you try to download another browser while using edge tho, which is shady of course, but once I changed the default browser, I never had any issues

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