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What is the benefit of doing this over simply installing Firefox on Windows? After you download the Firefox installer, you're done with Windows "messing" with you.

>>0xffff+(OP)
The Windows Firefox will be removed by an enterprise security suite forced upon you from your IT security. Or bogged down by antivirus. Luckily for us, 99,99% of those corporate security and IT drones have no idea what you can do with wsl.

>>0xffff+(OP)
I leave few things on Windows as Microsoft have opinions, and then OSQuery gives IT admins opinions.

I prefer as few outside opinions on what I run as possible, so I only leave Chrome and VSCode in Windows and everything else is in Linux.

I had run Linux for years, but whilst I still have Linux on desktop machines I leave Windows on my laptop as it truly gives me 8-9h battery life and Linux only gives me a matter of a few hours tops.

>>tut-ur+T1
Wow, and I thought my agency IT was hostile...

>>tut-ur+T1
What security person in their right mind would remove firefox as a security threat? In my opinion you can make firefox drastically more secure with adblock and tracking blocker addons and better default settings. You'd have to be totally unconcerned with actual security to force everyone into edge. Or maybe there are some draconian incentives at big-corp's that I haven't seen yet.

>>wholin+j9
They wouldn't remove it "as a security threat" as such. They'd remove it because it's not part of the vetted applications list.

>>tut-ur+T1
There is a portable version of Firefox that so far seems to run everywhere. The benefits you get with a portable browser are quite amazing.

Of course, that limits system integration, but you can still register it as a default browser.