Question Users confusing new Chromium-based Edge logo icon for Firefox icon? Seems to be happening.

[VirtualLarry]

My elderly Mom, was browsing grocery-store flyers, and it was making an audible noise every time that she clicked on something.

To my knowledge, this is something that IE used to do (and does Edge?), and Firefox was generally silent about clicking things.

According to her, her icons on the bottom TaskBar (Win10), the third one over was Firefox, right after the Folder.

I was like, "No Mom, I think that's Edge". She was adamant that it was a blue Firefox logo.




Seems like Microsoft, is preying on the older and less computer-savvy crowd, making their new Edge browser (with icon) seem like Firefox, to fool people?

 

[balloonshark]

Same thing happened between chrome and edge with my mother. She was blaming me and the computer again about how she couldn't use any of her regular websites. I had to explain that a new update installed a new browser and it wasn't chrome she was using. And of course that meant we had to go into whole what is chrome and what's a browser conversion for the umpteenth time.

 

[thetechfreak]

I think it might be a *little* intentional on the part of Edge to have their icon like Chrome. Also, automatically pinning to start menu doesn't help at all

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[BarkingGhostar]

Most exe files have an alternative icon graphic that you can choose by going into the file's properties. Maybe this is a solution?

 

[quikah]

Edge doesn't have any clicks for me, as far as I can tell it doesn't support Navigation sounds. Maybe your mom has some accessibility options enabled or an extension causing it.

 

[balloonshark]

Well Edge found its way back in my mothers taskbar and she couldn't do her Facebook once again. This is going to be a PITA. 😡

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, my Mom too, she was asking me why something wasn't working, and it was prompting her for something, and I was thinking, "that doesn't sound like firefox". She was using Chromium Edge. Worse yet, she had some drive-by download, "Web Navigator", which is a Chromium-based browser, but with adware and companionware and all kinds of who-knows-what. It had a fairly normal uninstall, and then I ran Malwarebytes, and then loaded Firefox, and did a "Refresh Firefox" on her profile, and re-setup uBlock Origin and Privacy badger, set privacy to "Strict", set search to "DuckDuckGo", and a few other tweaks I generally do, to keep relatively safe online.

She begged me to put Firefox on the bottom taskbar as an icon. I told her that all she had to do was right-click the shortcut and select "Pin to Taskbar", but she doesn't know how to right-click. Or she claims that she does not. So I did it for her.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

In the old days you could right click on the exe file and select a different embedded icon, or even use an externally supplied 3rd party icon. I have not tried this yet in W10, though so YMMV.