Alan2273 Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Microsoft finally provide a tool to allow you to choose your default browser You’ll remember some weeks ago that I told you about how Microsoft have agreed with the EU to provide a tool in Windows 7, Vista and XP to allow users to choose which web browser they would like to use by default, and have the tool install the browser of their choice automatically. This is all down to the years of legal wranglings between Microsoft and the EU, over Microsoft’s supposed abuse of its position as developer of the world’s most widely used operating system to force everyone to use Internet Explorer. You can of course install any browser you choose manually, but the EU felt that most people didn’t bother looking in to what was available, and just used the default supplied with Windows.Starting from the 1st of March, Windows users will have the browser choosing tool pushed out to their PC via the Windows Update service. If you have Internet Explorer set to be your default browser, after the update installs you will see a screen asking you whether you’d like to change browser, and a shortcut to the tool will be placed on your desktop. To change browser, proceed as follows:When the screen is displayed telling you that you need to make a choice about your browser, ensure that you are connected to the Internet then click OK.You will be presented with a list of available browsers. You can choose from Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 8 andOpera. Click the Install button under the browser you’d like to use. If you don’t want to change browser, click Select Later. Note: If you want to carry on using Internet Explorer, but currently have IE6 or IE7, then you should use the tool to upgrade to IE8.The wizard will download the selected browser, install it and set it as default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 How long before the multimedia player/backup/defragmenter/optical disk burner/ and so on is given the same treatment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 This nanny state at its worst. If people want a different browser they will already know what is available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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