Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11

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[Alex5723]

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In Windows 11, Microsoft has changed the way you set default apps. Like Windows 10, there’s a prompt that appears when you install a new browser and open a web link for the first time. It’s the only opportunity to easily switch browsers, though. Unless you tick “always use this app,” the default will never be changed

Microsoft has changed the way default apps are assigned in Windows 11, which means you now have to set defaults by file or link type instead of a single switch. In the case of Chrome, that means changing the default file type for HTM, HTML, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WEBP, XHT, XHTML, FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS.

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Even in Windows 10, if you are trying to switch the def browser to something different, the question is raised: “Do you really want to use this instead of Edge? Egde is our awesome browser made to..”

So you have to click, “yes, change anyway”.

In the opposite direction, its just one click

Of course they make it difficult in order to make unaware users use Edge. Thats OK, its their attitude. And even if you set default browser to “whatever” in Windows 10, links from new control pannel (ms-settings: app) are opened in Edge not respecting your setiings. Im not surprised.

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I don’t know whether this would constitute an infringement of monopoly position in US law, but I’m quite clear that it would be an infringement of Article 85 of the EU Treaty.  There are plenty of people in Brussels who would be lining up to remind Microsoft of this.  They should be careful.

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True, but it will take years before they get fined for that. And in the meantime income from this “affair” will pay the fine itself.

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And even though I deliberately set Win 10 20H2 to use FF as the default browser the Win 10’s settings app provides this annoying recommendation that is contrary to my wishes –

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