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Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's insane.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That's Chromium!

I honestly do suspect the fact that they're both Chromium based is part of why this is possible.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can't imagine it be too difficult to extract the open URLs, end chrome and launch Edge with the appropriate arguments.

But if it carried over cookies too, that's when I would see the chromium common-ground help out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if Google will just let microsoft have this since it's still chromium, or put in some kind of update preventing them from doing it (obviously with a backdoor specifically so chrome can do it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Heavily doubt it. Google wants people using Chrome, not anything else Chromium-based. Otherwise they'd also have no issue with Brave, Vivaldi, Opera (GX) etc.

It's like cars, VW, BMW, Renault, Peugeot etc will all compete even though they all (mostly) use I4 engines.