Of course, Windows 11’s new alert won’t prevent users from installing Chrome, but the message is clearly designed to discourse users from trying Chrome which is less secure than Edge (according to Microsoft).
It’s also worth pointing out that the alert appears when users try to visit Chrome’s download page using any search engine (Bing or Google itself). In our tests, we observed that the notification alert is triggered by a server-side update, so it has nothing to do with the build revision number of Windows 11.
This message won’t appear for most people using Edge stable at the moment (unless they are part of the A/B testing group). It also includes a button titled “browser securely now” which redirects users to a webpage highlighting performance, security and other benefits of Edge over other browsers. “Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft,” the message reads. As you can see in the above screenshot, this “browse securely message” pops up in the stable build of Edge and it only targets users visiting Chrome’s download page, so you won’t get the same alert if you try to install Firefox, Vivaldi or Opera.
