![]() Best to stick with the proper URI – perhaps print it out, write it down on the installer CD, save it into a text file or download one of the scripts linked later onto your installation medium.įor later versions of Windows, PowerShell may be installed and available for use. Unfortunately, the risk of doing that is to introduce a security issue where you might be misled to download another installer and get some malware instead. This isn’t particularly easy to remember, so there might be a temptation to shorten it. Unfortunately, trying to determine the same address for Google Chrome led me to understand that they seem to be generating “tracked” unique links with customised binaries to track installs – so no such luck there. ![]() This is a metalink that will download the latest stub – this is an installer that then goes to download the newest version and finally install the browser. After some work, I determined the best URI to use is: The URI can also change when versions change, so it’s best to find an official URI that is a “metalink” to the latest version of a given browser. Unfortunately, determining this is not as simple as it could otherwise be, due to the script-heavy nature of the websites and tracking involved nowadays. where the installer file is located (i.e. You also need some prior knowledge – i.e. Under Windows, the tools are lesser known and sometimes need to be slightly abused to meet our goals. Under Linux, there are always tools available – wget comes as standard. Instead, we must do our downloading through HTTPS. Even Mozilla’s no longer works, which is a shame, as that would have been an “easy” and familiar way to avoid IE-chan all together. Unfortunately, it seems like FTP mirrors are a bit of a dying breed as FTP is not a particularly secure protocol. In the old days, you could just fire up a command prompt terminal, open up FTP (which comes included in Windows), connect anonymously to a download server and initiate a transfer of an installer that way. How does one get a new browser without using the only supplied browser? Unfortunately, there is always a dependency somewhere – you need at least some prior knowledge to make this happen. The problem is that it’s a bit of a chicken and egg issue. ![]() I’d rather avoid confronting IE or Edge altogether. I wrote a comic about Internet Explorer /puEFc1HD0yīut to do that will lead to a barrage of advertising for the browser. Kind of like what this popular comic by “Merryweathery” shows. Unfortunately, these reasons are not enough … and their validity is a little questionable.īut for better or worse, we will fire up either IE or Edge just once, to download our favourite browser. In the battle for market share, Microsoft has pushed Edge upon the users of Windows 10 by giving it default placement, by captioning it as the “recommended” candidate, by resetting defaults occasionally after updates to favour it and by putting pop-ups that remind users that performance and battery life is “better” under Edge. They’re not even my favourite and for a number of good reasons. It’s no big secret that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and it’s closely related cousin, Edge, are not the world’s favourite browsers.
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