Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:04 PM

LizBeth (9,689 posts)

FIXED: A couple weeks ago I had an update and tried to force edge on me. Continued with Chrome.

Last night did an update and even when I click on my Chrome, where I have all my sites, when I click new tab it automatically is taking me to edge and I cannot find a way to dismantle. I am so computer stupid. Does anyone know anything about this and how I can get my chrome new tabs?

Edit: I am leaving this here because I saw at least one poster that had the same issue with edge. There is an easy fix.

Settings
Search browser.
it will pop up a choice for Chrome. But, even that they are manipulative by having reset, which will reset to fault being edge. I hate dishonest. Manipulative.

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FIXED: A couple weeks ago I had an update and tried to force edge on me. Continued with Chrome. (Original post)	LizBeth	Jul 2020	OP
I'd post this in the Computer Help Forum:	Rhiannon12866	Jul 2020	#1
GMTA!	CaliforniaPeggy	Jul 2020	#5
Good luck with it!	WhiskeyGrinder	Jul 2020	#2
You might want to post this in the Computer Help group. The link is below:	CaliforniaPeggy	Jul 2020	#3
You need to go to Settings and set Chrome as your preferred browser.	stopbush	Jul 2020	#4
Ok. You used the right words. I think I can do this. Thank you. I did something to FB	LizBeth	Jul 2020	#6
Yea. You are the man. Thank you.	LizBeth	Jul 2020	#7
You need to go into Chrome settings-	dawg day	Jul 2020	#8
I picked up 2 different installs of Edge on my sons Win 10 machine. I don't have any problem	abqtommy	Jul 2020	#9
+1. I might go in and explore but it seems like they put out so many tentacles, lol.	LizBeth	Jul 2020	#10
Everything I know about computers I learned from somebody else or from searching out	abqtommy	Jul 2020	#11

Response to LizBeth (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:07 PM

Rhiannon12866 (180,173 posts)

1. I'd post this in the Computer Help Forum:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

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Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:09 PM

CaliforniaPeggy (145,761 posts)

5. GMTA!

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Response to LizBeth (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:08 PM

WhiskeyGrinder (20,131 posts)

2. Good luck with it!

https://www.theverge.com/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-forced-update-chromium-editorial

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Response to LizBeth (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:08 PM

CaliforniaPeggy (145,761 posts)

3. You might want to post this in the Computer Help group. The link is below:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

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Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:08 PM

stopbush (24,178 posts)

4. You need to go to Settings and set Chrome as your preferred browser.

Do a search on the subject. I’m sure you’ll find easy to follow instructions.

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Response to stopbush (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:11 PM

LizBeth (9,689 posts)

6. Ok. You used the right words. I think I can do this. Thank you. I did something to FB

one time and was lost how to get my original FB back. Little things make me happy, thanks.

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Response to stopbush (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:13 PM

LizBeth (9,689 posts)

7. Yea. You are the man. Thank you.

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Response to LizBeth (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:19 PM

dawg day (7,947 posts)

8. You need to go into Chrome settings-

The update reset your "default Search Engine" and "New Tab" setting.

Click on the three dots on the upper right of Chrome window.
Click on:
Settings
On Startup.
Click on Either "New Tab"
or... "Specific Set of Pages" - and put in a couple pages (DU!).

This means, when you start Chrome, you'll either get a blank window, or the front page of the sites you choose.

;;
Not done yet! Go up to Search Engine
Click on Search Engine in Address Bar and choose Google.
Click on Manage Search Engines and choose Google== click on the three dots at the end and "Make Default." (You can choose another, but I assume you want Google.) I went ahead and deleted the other search engines because I never use them.

I think that will take care of it.
Sometimes you might install something and it will change your search engine, and this is how you can get it back to what you want it to be.

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Response to LizBeth (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:36 PM

abqtommy (14,118 posts)

9. I picked up 2 different installs of Edge on my sons Win 10 machine. I don't have any problem

with maintaining Firefox as the preferred browser but each time Edge was installed I went to Programs in Control panel and uninstalled them.

In Win 7 I have to select any update to install it so when Edge showed up there I just hid the damned
update. In Win 10 we can't do that but we can shut off all updates for a selected period of time.
That's what I'm doing there. So far so good.

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Response to abqtommy (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:45 PM

LizBeth (9,689 posts)

10. +1. I might go in and explore but it seems like they put out so many tentacles, lol.

Different places I have to go to do it. Will see what I can do, maybe. Or right now I am good, lol. I am really stupid with computers.

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Response to LizBeth (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 02:52 PM

abqtommy (14,118 posts)

11. Everything I know about computers I learned from somebody else or from searching out

information. Don't say you're stupid since there's no cure for that. Just claim to be ignorant which is
a correctable condition!

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