EdgeDeflector
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2,780 | 2,282 | |
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5.2 | 10.0 | |
about 2 years ago | 2 days ago | |
NSIS | HTML | |
MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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EdgeDeflector
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The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
There's also the dark bit where changing your default browser in Windows doesn't apply globally.
That is, some UI widgets will still open Edge even if you change the default.
There used to be an awesome open source project called EdgeDeflector that would fix that. Microsoft got wise to it and found a way to neutralize it, which killed the project. https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector
- It May Not Look Like Much, But it’s Got it Where it Counts.pretty much all of those are.
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How to redirect Windows 11 Microsoft Edge links to Firefox or Chrome (working as of Jan 2023)
1) Install EdgeDeflector. (Note: Edge deflector is deprecated without the next fix. You no longer need to browse into Default Apps to select EdgeDeflector).
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I own my PC, btw
It’s a very intentional thing that Microsoft ignores the default browser in many cases. They’ve already killed one workaround tool that fixes this: https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector
- It May Not Look Like Much, But it’s Got it Where it Counts
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search from win logo opens internet search results in EDGE, my default browser is chrome.
Idk if Edgeeflector can actually overcome this but it worth a try yk
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Windows 11 will soon be closed off to anyone without internet
Pretty much anywhere where they expect the user to not complain too much if it isn't their default browser. "oh it's annoying but it's just the weather settings". Completely ignoring you have to install a third party application like edgeDeflector just to maintain control over their own computer.
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Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Interesting project to solve this: https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector
Use Edge Deflector2 + Bing to Google Addon. It works pretty well. Edge Deflector
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I upgraded my cpu and now im having an issue booting to windows
Edge-Deflector (Windows 10 only)- https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector/releases
brave-core
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Unrelated but about Brave and interesting to me: I recently found myself having a large upstream project that I need to maintain some custom patches for, and there's a need for deeper customizations and I worry that my rudimentary system of applying .patch files will turn into an unmaintainable nightmare of merge conflicts after every rebase. I was thinking about possible solutions, and it occurred to me that Brave being Chromium-based must have this same challenge but an order of magnitude more difficult, so I looked for their code to see how they solved this issue.
It's pretty interesting! They do basically the same thing for core Chromium, applying a (big) set of patches[1].
Incidentally, I'd be interested to hear any ideas/approaches to this problem. I'm guessing if there was something clearly better, Brave would be doing it, but it seems like there should be a better way even if I can't think of one.
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Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/13737
(Incidentally, that PR number is not quite elite. :)
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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
I disagree that it's lip service Brave has a ton of engine level privacy patches https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
To my understanding you can't match it with just js extensions.
Only firefox on the highest security mode comes close I think?
Or ungoogled chromium? (brave has most of their patches IIRC)
Are there other options that have this number of patches?
- With merge of this pull request, Brave Browser disables WebEnvironmentIntegrity
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Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
They have much more changes than just compile flags. Here's the repo where they maintain their patch set: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
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uBlock Origin 1.50.0
As far as I know, they actually embed it: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/v1.54.44/components...
Although I can't say with 100% confidence because their build system is some ... special
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I want to build brave from the source and I am getting the same error repeatedly. Someone, please help. I am new to building apps from source.
The best example I can give you is how you won't get any default Adblock list, and you will have to manually add them as custom lists and update them one by one (they automatically update after 7 days). They are going to workaround that by automatically add the default lists as custom lists, but they haven't done it yet, and the updating part will stay the same. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/26143
- So long, Edge. Now what?
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Is there a way to run scripts (Python) in Brave ? What window framework is Brave built on ?
https://github.com/brave/brave-core + chromium
- Switched to Firefox a month ago and didn't look back
What are some alternatives?
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
brave-browser - Next generation Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows.
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
MSEdgeRedirect - A Tool to Redirect News, Search, Widgets, Weather and More to Your Default Browser
nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application
fingerprintjs - Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet