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Microsoft has changed how to set default applications in Windows 10 and to help with the process, we have illustrated below all the steps you need to set or change your default back to your intended choice. You can reach the settings app right from the Action Center. Make Firefox Your Default Browser In my case, I had Firefox set as the default browser and wanted it to remain like that.
Call me paranoid, but I see something sneaky going on here. This is EXTREMELY ANNOYING. For those of you tired of the M. If the app does not specify which browser to launch in when a browser-required link is clicked, Safari will be launched. I had met good things about this new version and wanted to give it a shot. On my Chrome, that is not called Tools.
And, the first time you run Firefox, it asks if you want to make your default — just like it has always done. It was under the Advanced tab. I was very happy for some time. Hi John, Not sure I understand — Vici.
How Do I Make Firefox or Chrome My Default Browser in Windows 10? - Click on the General icon, if it is not already selected. Or just click Choose a default browser from the top of the search results.
Microsoft Edge is the default web browser in Windows 10 when you upgrade, even if you had it set to Chrome or Firefox. While the Edge browser is much faster and intuitive than Internet Explorer, features are missing. Namely, the ability to use popular add-ons or extensions that are available in other browsers like Chrome or Firefox. So you might want to make your default browser something else until we get those abilities in Edge in future updates. Regarding changing your browser back to Firefox, Beard writes: It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. Change Windows 10 Default Web Browser In the search field type: default browser and hit Enter. Or just click Choose a default browser from the top of the search results. As you can see, Edge is currently set as the default. To change it click on Microsoft Edge and a menu of different browsers you have installed on your PC pops up. Moving forward, any time you click any links in your email or other apps, your browser of choice opens up — not Edge. A Few More Thoughts The steps outlined above are mostly aimed at those of you who or those who upgraded. And, the first time you run Firefox, it asks if you want to make your default — just like it has always done. And interestingly enough, the first time I launched Google Chrome, it displayed a video that showed you exactly how to make it your default browser again, same steps as above. It should be no surprise that Microsoft is going to change your default web browser to its own during the upgrade process. Microsoft wants to show you what it has to offer, and it wants you to use it. But changing it back to whatever you prefer is a simple affair. Leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts! Please Brian it is NEVER that simple with Microsoft and the giant pissing contest they are constantly in regarding ANY other competition. YOU are the one belittling us. I do not have hours and hours in my day to constantly keep up the the latest MS scams and force fed updates. As described above, Outlook 2013 and other apps were asking me each and every time I clicked on a link to choose a default browser Chrome in my case. Checking the box to remember the choice DID NOT work. I tried all the online suggestions I could find—most listed above as well—none worked for me. As a test, I opened Outlook 2013 and clicked on a link inside an email. It popped up the same window asking for the default browser—I was not encouraged, but I selected Chrome and selected to mark it as default. No more annoying popup in either Outlook or other apps. My name is also David, and like the David above, I am unable to make a change. If click I get the list just like your picture, but no matter what I select, no change is made to she system and the control panel stills shows a blank for the default web browser. Call me paranoid, but I see something sneaky going on here. Now, every time that I launch Google Chrome, I am asked if I want to select it as the default option, which I do to no effect… INCREDIBLY ANNOYING!! It also lists further down Edge and Chrome and Look For An App in The App Store. This is EXTREMELY ANNOYING. Ken: While you are of course correct in suggesting that Microsoft would rather we use IE instead of Chrome or Firefox, you have to remember that these are non-Microsoft products whereby hindering their use by forcing a browser choice would provoke anti-competition trouble for Microsoft. However, since IE and Edge are both Microsoft products, forcing users to choose between these two should not provoke such trouble. So, as I suggested in my previous posting above, forcing a browser choice in an attempt to annoy users into using Edge instead of IE11 is an option open to Microsoft. Since my previous posting, I have had a lot of trouble with IE-caused crashes, which I have entirely solved by switching with regret to Edge. That is, I have seen the writing on the wall and admitted defeat! Update 1709 to Windows 10 deletes Chrome and makes it impossible to reinstall it. You can set Firefox as the default browser, but you keep on being asked to do it again. If anyone knows how to make Firefox the default browser and, ideally, uninstall Edge permanently for email and anything else for which one used a browser, please let me know. Chrome is also now available as an option in the default browser. Some have applied a registry hack to remove the last digit of the IE 11nnnnnn string, which does work, but of course is negated as soon as there is an upgrade and the new full string is written. I clicked yes and was taken to the settings page with the default apps. Once there, I clicked on Chrome to be my default browser but nothing happened. A process that used to be a single click is now multiple steps, the fast version of which involves typing the right thing into the search box which is kinda like telling people to use command line. A single click is how it still is on a clean install though, right? Not so much, in my case I got the message telling me to go to settings etc. Case in point, this IS NOT EASIER than one click to change something as basic as a default browser setting. Or other program settings for that matter. But it and the browser issue are really one and the same: a Microsoft thinks it knows best and b Microsoft thinks people will use its browsers rather than go to the trouble of opening another, be it Firefox, Chrome, or anything else. In fact, when it comes to web browsers, my advice to Microsoft is, give up. I want Microsoft to FIX this mess. My main gripe is that if I try to open links from Outlook there is no option to use Chrome. Microsoft seem to be makng it an all-or-nothing choice, i. I know which way this is taking me! I have done everything to make IE 11 my default browser, and it shows as such. But, if I click on gmail or anything in google, Chrome opens. I really HATE the clutter of having 2 browser session, with multiple tabs open at the same time. How can I get the links to open in IE like they used to? I tried your solution not only would it not take Chrome as my default browser it changed the options. I click on this and the usual choices are there including Chrome but if I click on Chrome it is not accepted as the default. I have tried all the choices including Microsoft Edge and it will accept none of them…yet as default default? Everytime I open Chrome I have to set it as my default. OK, this issue has been dogging me since I upgraded to Win 10. As described above, Outlook 2013 and other apps were asking me each and every time I clicked on a link to choose a default browser Chrome in my case. Checking the box to remember the choice DID NOT work. I tried all the online suggestions I could find—most listed above as well—none worked for me. As a test, I opened Outlook 2013 and clicked on a link inside an email. It popped up the same window asking for the default browser—I was not encouraged, but I selected Chrome and selected to mark it as default. No more annoying popup in either Outlook or other apps. Your instructions do not work for Firefox. All was working fine then a few days ago, every time I open Firefox it tells me that Bing cannot find that page. It has got to have something to do with the automatic updates that Windows installs. Seems like the people at windows would see that sometimes, people want their own stuff, not what the Windows people want us to have. I must go find the Tylenol. I have the same problem. I have followed instructions to the T for all the various ways to set Firefox as my browser and every time I open it, it tells me it is not the default browser and asks if I want to set it as default. Still get the pop-up though. I am having the same problem. The difference that I have is when I go in to change my browser nothing is showing as my browser. I can click on the tab and pick my browser and it will change back for a short period of time. Not sure how long I am able to keep the chrome browser but it is not for very long. It is very frustrating. I would have no problem using Edge if they worked out the kinks that made it so slow but until than I want chrome. However, after I eventually got so annoyed that I set Google Chrome as the default browser the message stopped. So I then set IE once again as my default browser, and once again the message started to appear. See For me it got rid of the dialog box. Links will open in IE providing they do not contain an ampersand. If the link does contain an ampersand, the url passed to IE is terminated at that point rendering it invalid. This means that, generally, simple links to websites will work, but complex links eg links to specific ebay items will not. Both are listed as possible values for the new key in KB 3094186. Hi, it worked for me too. I was very happy for some time. Then I discovered that most of the links that are from science direct journal issues alerts have the bad-behaved links. These were completely blocked by the fix. IE opened without asking me if I what keeping using it but in a general search page. I wanted to remove the fix, but suddenly and update was installed and the fix was automatically removed. Thus I am back to zero. I know that I could install the fix again, but the science direct links will not work. Thus I will keep waiting for some other fix or finally!? Do they ever know about these bugs? Did what you said and each time I chose the browser I preferred Windows conveniently glitched like I had made no selection. For those of you tired of the M. Find the program you want to make the default browser, and then choose all the file types you want your app to open. Then you can go into Edge and see all the file types it will still open. Interestingly enough it has a few proprietary file types. Same thing we had to do to Vista! Way to go Microsoft!