Microsoft wants Windows users to run Edge instead of some other browser, and is trying in various ways to push them in that direction. Among other things, the system displays a dialog box after updates prompting the user to switch to “recommended browser settings,” meaning Edge is the default browser and Bing as the search engine.
In recent days, users have reported how Edge goes much further and without asking for permission imports all their open tabs from Chrome. Tom Warren on the edge He writes that at first he didn't even notice it was Edge and wondered why he was logged out of all his usual sites.
Edge has a setting to import Chrome data every time the program starts, as a sort of syncing feature for those who run both browsers and want to be able to go back and forth with the same open tabs. On Tom Warren's computer, this setting was turned off, and other users commented on X that they experienced the same thing.
One possible explanation is that there is a bug in Edge that means the setting is not being respected and the basic behavior the program resorts to again is to import tabs instead of the other way around. Microsoft has not yet commented on the data.
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