
Anyway, I'm currently on the 16th iteration of Windows 10. I've provided feedback in the past, both good and bad, but stopped doing so about six months ago. I just got lazy and became too involved with my personal life. However, I have been keeping up with their Insider's Blog and have been updating to the latest and greatest beta release. Somewhere around two or three generations back, the gurus in charge of the Insiders Program decided to make a small change in their browser app. They fixed it so that you could not make any browser other than the native 'Edge' browser the default. I've been ignoring that because I use WaterFox (a clean version of FireFox) and have it set to perform more or less only one task. But, Mozilla keeps advising me that FireFox is the bees' knees and I should try it. I didn't want to mess up my main system (Windows 7 desktop) with a new browser which prompted me to install it into Windows 10. I removed all of the old browser and installed Firefox 56, or something. It works well and I'm still evaluating most of it, but I neglected to change the setting inside FireFox which makes it the default browser. I figured I'm beta testing Windows and should use their recommended software as default, but I kept getting these annoying notifications from FireFox saying I should make THEM the default. I put up with those messages for a while because I was not sure I'd keep FireFox on the laptop. After a few weeks I caved. I tried to set FireFox as the default browser.
Checking the option box from inside FireFox took me to the Windows 10 settings. From the settings I could set my default apps. Sure enough, Edge was the current default browser. The pull-down menu listed Firefox as a possible alternative, but when I selected Firefox I got a notification. It said Edge was designed to work with Windows 10, and won't I please try using Edge first. I clicked the "change anyway" button and was brought back to the base settings page. There was no way to use any other browser as a default, which is what they said they were going to do in their blog way back when.
Frustrated by all this I went to the Feedback Hub app and to my surprise found only one other chap who was looking for an answer to the same problem. All the answers I could find simply explained how to go into FireFox and change the option. But, I already knew that does not work. I then commented on the sole questioner's entry. I said something to the effect that apparently Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom made it impossible to set any other browser but Edge as default. I further stated that this isn't going to make me use Edge any more in spite of the setting I can't change. I left the Feedback app in a huff.
I realize that I'm a single 'nobody' allowing Microsoft to gather my personal use information for whatever purposes they chose to do with it. They claimed all along that they ONLY use the telemetry to improve the product and sell it to nobody nor use it for nefarious purposes. Yeah. Right. Less than a week after I left my sarcastic remark in the Feedback app, a new release of the evaluation copy for Windows 10 came down the fast lane of my update schedule. No big deal. It was Thursday and that's typically when it happens. After the update completed I went into Firefox first. I changed the option to make Firefox the default, and nearly died on the spot when it accepted the change. I went over to the system settings, and sure enough. Firefox was now the default browser.

Coincident? I think not.