Mozilla is taking a page from Microsoft, testing automatically switching the default browser to Firefox when it is installed, rather than asking the user to do so.

Once one of the most popular web browsers, Firefox has a small fraction of the market share it once had. Mozilla has been increasingly its focus on Firefox under new CEO Laura Chambers. Ultimately, however, one of the biggest challenges the organization faces is convincing people to use Firefox as their default browser.

According to a bug report, Mozilla is testing the idea of automatically making Firefox the default, saving users from having to wade through Windows’ settings to do it.

This bug is for implementing a means of setting Firefox as the default browser based on the presence of a set_default_browser attribution campaign.

Interestingly, Microsoft has been accused of not respecting users’ choice, when it comes to the default browser in Windows 11, often resorting to underhanded tactics to force the use of Edge. As Digital Trends points out, Mozilla has been critical of Microsoft’s antics in the past.

“More can be done to respect [the] default browser choice on Windows. People should have the ability to simply and easily set defaults, and all operating systems should offer official developer support for default status,” said a Mozilla spokesperson at the time.

In Mozilla’s defense, Microsoft has made it more difficult to change defaults in some versions of Windows, making drastic action more defensible than it may have been years ago. At the same time, any time an organization takes presumes to change a users’ defaults, it risks alienating the very users it’s trying to attract.

Only time will tell if Mozilla’s new tactic is successful—or if it horribly backfires.