Changes

The original Edge is was controversial because Microsoft has historically tried to dominate over other vendors by not following industry standards.  An exception to this is Microsoft's promotion of [[HTML 5]] as a standard over the widely used [[Adobe Flash]] plug-in for sharing and displaying video content.  The anniversary version of Edge introduced in 2016 disabled Flash until a user enables it and will disable automatic playing of embedded flash videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/08/microsoft_disables_flash_in_edge/|title=Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked|date=April 8, 2016|accessdate=April 10, 2016|work=The Register}}</ref>

The original Edge is was controversial because Microsoft has historically tried to dominate over other vendors by not following industry standards.  An exception to this is Microsoft's promotion of [[HTML 5]] as a standard over the widely used [[Adobe Flash]] plug-in for sharing and displaying video content.  The anniversary version of Edge introduced in 2016 disabled Flash until a user enables it and will disable automatic playing of embedded flash videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/08/microsoft_disables_flash_in_edge/|title=Microsoft drives an Edge between Adobe and the web: Flash ads blocked|date=April 8, 2016|accessdate=April 10, 2016|work=The Register}}</ref>

The controversy continued, as Microsoft started pushing Windows users to us Edge, through nags in the Start menu, popups when trying to install another browser, and more.<ref>https://news.thewindowsclub.com/windows-10-starts-urging-users-to-switch-from-firefox-to-edge-97256/</ref><ref>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/276871-windows-10-now-warns-users-not-to-install-chrome-firefox</ref> Although beginning in 2018, this campaign has continued for years after. Presumably in response to this, Google started trying to scare users back to Chrome but putting "warning" banners on the Chrome web store (where browser plug-ins, themes, etc. can be added to any Chromium-based browser) which report that "Google recommends switching to Chrome to use extensions securely."

The controversy continued, as Microsoft started pushing Windows users to use Edge, through nags in the Start menu, popups when trying to install another browser, and more.<ref>https://news.thewindowsclub.com/windows-10-starts-urging-users-to-switch-from-firefox-to-edge-97256/</ref><ref>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/276871-windows-10-now-warns-users-not-to-install-chrome-firefox</ref> Although beginning in 2018, this campaign has continued for years after. Presumably in response to this, Google started trying to scare users back to Chrome but putting "warning" banners on the Chrome web store (where browser plug-ins, themes, etc. can be added to any Chromium-based browser) which report that "Google recommends switching to Chrome to use extensions securely."

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