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Feature Request: Remove Edge

Open samlachance opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

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samlachance avatar Jul 17 '20 22:07 samlachance

Serious and not snarky question: If you remove Edge, how will you download a different browser?

cflewis avatar Sep 20 '20 05:09 cflewis

I did some research into this and came up with a few things:

  1. It is possible (and officially supported) to remove the Chromium-based Edge. If you choose to uninstall the Chromium version of edge, the OS will kindly give you back your original EdgeHTML-based Edge :)
  2. While it may be technically possible to remove the EdgeHTML version of Edge, the only way to get rid of it is to take ownership of the relevant files/folders and forcibly truncate/lock/delete them. This is definitely not supported and will very likely break things.

This feature, if implemented, should live under a new "Dangerous" category in the set of treatments.

It's unlikely that I will spend time writing this feature anytime soon. In the meantime, I wouldn't say no to a PR for it 😁

cough cough @samlachance

t-richards avatar Sep 21 '20 00:09 t-richards