Uninstalling Edge

OAT · Feb 10, 2023

cereberus said:
Of course, all the people who say "do this blah blah blah" never take any reponsibilty if something craps out.

None of the advices I have given on these forums, I have not tried and retried myself.
You are right in saying it would be simpler to ignore Edge, the ideal way would be to set the default App to your browser of choice.
I have been without Edge for months on Dev & Beta builds with no issues whatsoever.
Firefox being my browser of choice.

cereberus · Feb 10, 2023

OAT said:
None of the advices I have given on these forums, I have not tried and retried myself.
You are right in saying it would be simpler to ignore Edge, the ideal way would be to set the default App to your browser of choice.
I have been without Edge for months on Dev & Beta builds with no issues whatsoever.
Firefox being my browser of choice.

And where will you be if Firefox crapped out?

My point is just because things works for person A is no gurantee it works for person B.

As always, people should make proper backups, and test things. Not rocket science is it?

Edwin · Feb 10, 2023

I do not have any issues uninstalling Edge, except, uninstalling Edge Web Runtime View breaks the ability to use the in-box Teams app.
(It always returns, though!)

If MS would stop being so militant about misleading users into thinking that Edge is the only browser you should be using on Windows, then I wouldn't be so militant in trying to get rid of it!
It's a matter of principle.

cereberus · Feb 10, 2023

Edwin said:
I do not have any issues uninstalling Edge, except, uninstalling Edge Web Runtime View breaks the ability to use the in-box Teams app.

If MS would stop being so militant about misleading users into thinking that Edge is the only browser you should be using on Windows, then I wouldn't be so militant in trying to get rid of it!
It's a matter of principle.

Rather proves my point, no real reason to remove it other than attitude LOL.

OAT · Feb 10, 2023

And where will you be if Firefox crapped out?

I think my twenty five in IT would insure I would survive if Firefox 'crapped' out as you so expressed.

cereberus · Feb 10, 2023

OAT said:
I think my twenty five. in IT would insure I would survive if Firefox 'crapped' out as you so expressed.

Yeah but what about people who ask here who obviously do not have your experience?

OAT · Feb 10, 2023

Edwin said:
I do not have any issues uninstalling Edge, except, uninstalling Edge Web Runtime View breaks the ability to use the in-box Teams app.
(It always returns, though!)

If MS would stop being so militant about misleading users into thinking that Edge is the only browser you should be using on Windows, then I wouldn't be so militant in trying to get rid of it!
It's a matter of principle.

I totally agree with you there. The footprint is also ridiculous.
I was running Edge & Edge Canary and the folders which I had symlinked to another drive totalled 1GB, and this after clearing cache.
For a browser, well two, but you get my point.
Firefox 150-200 MB at the most.

Edwin · Feb 10, 2023

cereberus said:
... attitude

Works both ways!
I'm quite certain my attitude is more forgiving than MS's!

OAT · Feb 10, 2023

cereberus said:
Yeah but what about people who ask here who obviously do not have your experience?

There is always a danger there. It can be difficult to gauge sometimes but you can't fake it.
I think the most interesting users are those who know enough to be dangerous but don't know enough to correct their own doings.
But this is beyond the scope of this thread.

woldsweather · Feb 10, 2023

cereberus said:
Have you considered risk of deleting Edge. I have seen cases where people did this and their preferred browser failed. These people were caught in a catch 22 i.e. they could not reinstall their preferred browser as they needed it to do so.

So you would have to install some other browser as a backup, or have a backup on a usb drive etc.

Seems to me it is just easier to leave Edge in place. Nobody forces you to use it.

Of course, all the people who say "do this blah blah blah" never take any reponsibilty if something craps out. People have found removing core apps can have unexpected side effect e.g. updates do not work properly afterwards.

There is no real reason to remove Edge really, other than an attitude of user.

I use Chrome, Brave and Firefox but would risk any problems to get shut of Brave but then I am a risk taker.

OAT · Feb 10, 2023

I want to apologize.
The process to remove Edge I listed above no longer works. And this, since version 110 (so very recently)
I questioned MS and I was told that the browser was an integral part of the OS and could no longer be removed.
This is because of the addition of msedgewebview2 (widgets) and widget Service that are tied in to the version of Edge.

WXC · Feb 10, 2023

OAT said:
This is because of the addition of msedgewebview2 (widgets) and widget Service that are tied in to the version of Edge.

No doubt.

I've removed this twice, and it keeps coming back. I finally, just gave up.

Thank you, Oat.

Edwin · Feb 10, 2023

OAT said:
the addition of msedgewebview2 (widgets) and widget Service that are tied in to the version of Edge.

All the more reason to evict it from the OS.

idgat · Feb 10, 2023

cereberus said:
Nobody forces you to use it.

... Except Windows. Many instances where action defaults to Edge, irrespective of what the user has set as the preferred default browser. Same thing with Bung, irrespective of what the user has set/installed as the default search engine, some search actions provide Bung search results in Edge.

Mind you, users who follow the MS mantra and accept Bung and Edge as the set respective defaults probably don't experience or realise Windows deviosity.

abactuon · Feb 10, 2023

idgat said:
Many instances where action defaults to Edge

Which ones are these?

[SupportedTypes]
".apng"=""
".avif"=""
".bmp"=""
".flac"=""
".gif"=""
".htm"=""
".html"=""
".ico"=""
".jfif"=""
".jpeg"=""
".jpg"=""
".json"=""
".m4a"=""
".mp3"=""
".oga"=""
".ogg"=""
".ogv"=""
".opus"=""
".pdf"=""
".pjp"=""
".pjpeg"=""
".png"=""
".rdf"=""
".shtml"=""
".svg"=""
".webm"=""
".webp"=""
".xht"=""
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".xml"=""

Properties>Open with: Change -> Chrome

The operating system should have a browser and Edge is better than Chrome.
But I use Firefox.
Browser updates can be turned off and let it be a backup.

# Update (WebView)
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate" -Name "Update{F3017226-FE2A-4295-8BDF-00C3A9A7E4C5}" -Type DWord -Value 0

idgat · Feb 10, 2023

abactuon said:
Which ones are these?

[SupportedTypes]
etc

Absolutely nothing to do with file types.

But, for example, do a search from the Taskbar or the Start menu >> results displayed in Edge using Bling as the search engine. Neither are my default settings !!

abactuon · Feb 10, 2023

Browser search, I've turned that off altogether.

Suzie · Feb 17, 2023

I've not had a problem after I uninstalled Edge. Why should I be forced to keep something when I don't like it or use?
I preferred Internet Explorer over Edge, but they got rid of that.
I was getting adware cookies using Edge, and I had the security settings set up to guard against those, also I had adblocker plus, and they still got in.
Brave is now my browser of choice, and I get NO adware/malware of any kind.
The Edge registry entries are still there, but no folders/files in Program files x86, and none in Users/user name/local/appdata. I have not been bothered with any re-installation of Edge. My laptop works great. I keep it updated and patched. I scan for adware/viruses every day. I have plenty of disk space and RAM. I've had this 3 yrs., I bought it refurbished.
If Edge were as popular as Microsoft claims it it, they wouldn't be trying to push it on people.

pokeefe0001 · Feb 17, 2023

OAT said:
I think the most interesting users are those who know enough to be dangerous but don't know enough to correct their own doings.
But this is beyond the scope of this thread.

It's nice to know I'm considered "interesting" .

But how "trial and error" learning works for me. I spend 5 minutes learning how to make a change and 2 weeks figuring out how to undo it. But that's beyond the scope of this thread.

pokeefe0001 · Feb 17, 2023

OAT said:
I questioned MS and I was told that the browser was an integral part of the OS and could no longer be removed.
This is because of the addition of msedgewebview2 (widgets) and widget Service that are tied in to the version of Edge.

That's a pretty feeble argument from MS. Some of us have no use for widgets. I'm perfectly willing to get rid of both Edge and widgets.

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