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win+x, open Terminal

winget install mozilla.firefox

Then you don't even have to open Edge!

I usually just do that step with chocolatey as part of an ansible playbook, but winget works even better.

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Wait till they see this loophole. You’ll get the same questioning.

Hopefully the winget team are heavily silo'd from the edge team.

winget is the best thing to happen to Windows in years, especially now that it's not a separate download.

How many realistic options are there for a browser if I don't use it for stuff that has an app? Servo seemed to work fine the few places I went, but the UI isn't there yet. Lynx either has some tricks I neglected to read about, or is unusable even on stuff that works fine in reader mode as a plain document. Firefox and chrome have some spinoffs that may get rid of telemetry, maybe that is a decent option, but I'd worry about bug fixes. Thoughts anyone?

I just use Firefox and maintain a single policies.json [1] to disable features I don't like (Pocket, telemetry, etc) across all of the computers that I use. Mozilla has pretty good documentation [2] available, mostly aimed at Enterprise admins, but it works for me.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

2. https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net) seems ok so far (couple of months), and tracks the Firefox release schedule pretty well.

also available in winget!

winget install LibreWolf.LibreWolf

Also ninite.com - you do have to open Edge, but you get a custom installer for a whole host of programs and it won't get flagged by Edge as a competing browser download.

don't forget to run an edge remover as well (some of them on github)

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