Windows 11: changing your default browser will be even more difficult
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Windows 11 forces you to use Microsoft Edge by complicating the process that allows you to change the default browser.
Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11. Alongside the new Widgets that ignore your default browser choice, Microsoft's browser competitors aren't happy. My report here: https://t.co/57PTPAMgRD pic.twitter.com/zozUpZpk9r
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 18, 2021
On Windows 11, configuring a default web browser is particularly complicated.
Windows 11 forces you to use the Microsoft Edge browser
Microsoft's new operating system won over users with its revamped graphic identity and many new features. Windows 11 now reveals some downsides, especially when setting up the default web browser on PC. Indeed, when installing a third-party web browser on Windows 11, users will be entitled to a window asking with which browser they want to perform their action. If until then the process remains classic, this step is decisive for the rest.
If you choose another browser (such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.), you must absolutely check the box "Always use this application to open files" , otherwise you will be forced to use Microsoft Edge . According to the information given by The Verge , the window that allows you to choose your default browser will no longer appear after this step.
A complex manipulation to change browser
If you missed the check mark during this first configuration, the manipulation then becomes particularly complex to change the default browser. Users have to wait for their third-party browser to prompt them to do so. They are then returned to the Windows default Applications menu . In its previous versions, Microsoft's operating system only offered to change your favorite browser. On Windows 11, the manipulation requires defining a default application for each type of file or link.
For example, if you choose Google Chrome, you need to manually configure it for HTM, HTML, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WEBP, XHT, XHTML, FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS.
Microsoft's recurrence
This is not the first time that the company has tried to impose the use of Microsoft Edge. On Windows 10, Microsoft took advantage of an update to make Edge the default browser . By complicating, on Windows 11, a process which until then remained simple, Microsoft is attracting the anger of Internet users, but also of the competition which reacted strongly.
Among the various reactions gathered by The Verge , that of Hiroshi Lockheimer, head of Android, Chrome and Chrome OS who said: “This comes from the company that claims to be the most open, with 'the most choice'. I hope this is just a preview, and that the retail version of Windows 11 lives up to their claims ” .
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