About a Microsoft Family safety.

Win10ユーザー 40 Reputation points
2026-09-09T03:19:54.78+00:00

Why does it take just under two minutes to apply the changes?

What’s the point of blocking Chrome by default and forcing users to use Edge? Isn’t Chrome based on Chromium too? Plus, Chrome has better features, and the mobile version has been heavily criticized. Why did they release it in this state?

Plus, you can even rename it with administrator privileges (Trusted Installer)—though I won’t explain how here for security reasons, XD

What were the Microsoft Family Safety developers thinking when they released this? Sure, Microsoft Family Safety is officially the safest of all Windows restriction tools, but even so, this is way too much.

Other people have been pointing this out, yet it still hasn’t been fixed—what’s going on?

Finally: To the Microsoft Family Safety developers. It would really help everyone if you could make this a little more user-friendly.

I have more respect for Microsoft than I do for Japanese people.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Family and online safety
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2026-09-09T03:20:12.1233333+00:00

Microsoft Family Safety blocks unsupported browsers by design when web filtering is enabled. Microsoft Edge is currently the only supported browser for Family Safety web filtering, so Edge can be used by default on the child’s device after web filtering is turned on. Other browsers, including Chrome, require parent or guardian approval before they can be used.

Chrome being Chromium-based does not change that behavior. The documented rule is based on browser support within Microsoft Family Safety, not on the browser engine.

There is also a known issue affecting Google Chrome and some other browsers:

  1. If a child opens Chrome, it can shut down unexpectedly instead of showing the normal approval prompt.
  2. The expected behavior is a parental approval message: “You’ll need to ask to use this app”.
  3. After approval is granted, the browser operates as intended.
  4. This issue occurs when Activity reporting is turned off.

Why changes can take time to apply is not explained in the provided documentation. What is documented is that Family Safety uses remote management and remote activity monitoring, and settings can be managed through the Family Safety website.

Also, Family Safety is not intended to be fully robust against determined attempts to bypass restrictions. Microsoft documents that parental control solutions generally cannot protect against sophisticated intentional efforts to circumvent the controls.

The discriminatory statement in the question is inappropriate and should be avoided.

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