It’s fairly simple to switch it to whatever browser you choose, but Microsoft has complicated the process some from what it was in previous versions. The reason Beard has a problem with Windows 10 is that when a user who has chosen Firefox or another non-Microsoft browser as their default browser upgrades to Windows 10 Microsoft is automatically changing the default to Microsoft Edge. While numbers vary widely depending on the source it’s safe to say that a large percentage of Windows users choose a browser other than Microsoft’s default-Internet Explorer in previous Windows releases or Microsoft Edge in Windows 10.
The disparity is a function both of the audience served as well as the methods used for determining browser usage. My internal data from my own website puts Chrome in the lead at 54 percent and Firefox third behind Safari at just over 10 percent. Net Market Share claims Microsoft has nearly 77 percent market share with Firefox coming in second at just under 18 percent. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.” It starts out, “I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10. A couple weeks ago Mozilla CEO Chris Beard posted an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.