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Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 update, which brings a new feature – modifying the system’s default browser has finally returned to an easier way. In June last year, after Microsoft pushed Win11, it was very difficult for the system to set browsers other than Edge as the default, which led to the dissatisfaction of many users.
Before, Win11 was very troublesome to modify the default browser. Microsoft disperses the default browser settings in the system. If users want to set third-party browsers such as Chrome and Firefox as the default, they need to manually modify the associated browser for each network protocol and known file extension. .
For example, if you want to set Chrome as the default browser, then you have to manually register network protocols such as HTTP or HTTPS for Chrome as well. HTML, . File associations for popular web file extensions such as HTM. Although in the end, users can still fully set up Chrome as a third-party browser, the process is undoubtedly very cumbersome.
For Microsoft, these criticisms are easy to notice. In this April 2022 cumulative update, Windows 11 rolled back the system’s default browser settings mechanism.
After upgrading Windows 11 KB5012592, users can simply click to switch Edge browser or other third-party browsers as default browsers through the settings panel. As shown in the screenshot, the settings panel now has a new option that allows users to change all network protocols and network file extensions management programs with one click, thereby setting the default browser.
The Mozilla Foundation, behind the Firefox browser, welcomes this. People should be able to easily set their default browsers, Mozilla said, and it hopes Microsoft will respect user preferences for default browsers everywhere, reducing the steps required to set browsers like Firefox as default.
Mozilla also wants Microsoft to make Edge’s APIs available to other browsers so they can be used to improve integration with other Microsoft applications.
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