For many individuals, Microsoft Edge is the software program you utilize to obtain Google Chrome. You want a browser to entry the Chrome web site, and Edge is the one possibility on a brand-new or freshly reset Windows PC. But whereas Microsoft as soon as let individuals go with out a fuss, it’s grown more and more proof against abandonment. The newest act of desperation: Now whenever you seize the set up file for Chrome, a survey opens in Edge to ask why you’re leaving.

Initially noticed by Neowin, Microsoft’s plea to know what went flawed doesn’t exchange different plugs for Edge. Instead, it turns into one more one inserted into the method of getting Chrome. This survey seems actually whenever you click on the obtain hyperlink for Chrome—the Activity Center sidebar pops up on the suitable aspect of the window with a occupation of affection and a request to pick out one in every of eight causes for the departure.

Depending on if Bing is the default search engine, these questions are the second and even third time Edge will insert itself into your online business. Bing shows a banner downplaying different browsers if you happen to seek for Chrome, and when you load the Chrome web site, a small overlay springs as much as boast of Edge’s superiority. (On Windows 10, you get bonus hilarity within the type of further misguided textual content, which says that setting Microsoft Edge as your default browser is simply a sound supply for one individual per account inside 14 days of becoming a member of. No, it doesn’t make any sense.)

Chrome is the one rival browser that triggers this habits in Microsoft Edge.

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While Microsoft’s elevated neediness is a questionable technique, its claims about Edge’s strengths aren’t completely unfounded. For instance, Edge and Chrome are each based mostly on the identical code: Chromium, Google’s open-source venture that additionally powers browsers like Vivaldi, Brave, and Opera. Edge additionally places its personal spin on Chromium, with some standout options not accessible in Chrome, like vertical tabs and a traditional reader mode. But the sword cuts each methods, and Chrome has one necessary factor Edge doesn’t—integration with the Google ecosystem. To entry bookmarks, passwords, and different information in your Google account, Chrome is the very best place to be.

If that is what you inform the survey—Edge lacks passwords and bookmarks saved elsewhere—you’re lastly left in peace afterward. But the Activity Center sidebar nonetheless stays open. You’ll have to cover it your self if you happen to want the display actual property again. Perhaps Microsoft is aware of the entire app is getting closed as quickly because the obtain’s over.