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Friendly reminder that winget comes preinstalled on Windows 11 now.
winget install Mozilla.FirefoxYou can install Firefox without even opening Edge!
Btw, MS stole it.
https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/
Not exactly "stole"; the author was fine about the code being used in this way. What they were upset about is the lack of attribution and communication.
Isn't this what licenses are for?
The license was Apache 2.0, and there was a tiny bit of attribution...just enough to cover the license requirements.
On Windows 10 too. I always just download from the website or store but I recently experienced the pretty fun of updating my apps over CLI for some reason
Do you need an MS account?
Which is something you will need to do to not accept their privacy invasive terms and conditions that you have to accept before using the bloated data harvesting browser.
winget install Vivaldi