
Interestingly, if you install Chrome or Firefox, you won’t see them as options. Click on that and you will see other browsers you can use to open these private links.

Click on that and then type “Edge” in the search box labeled “Set defaults for connection types”.Scroll down until you see “Choose defaults by connection type”.

To open Edge-specific links, you need to do the following: If you find this annoying, there may be an app for it. For example, open Windows 11’s new Widgets pane (by clicking the Widgets icon in your taskbar, it looks like a two-paned window) and click on one of the news items that appear there – the link will open. Even after you change your browser’s default to something other than Edge, you will still have Edge as the preferred browser for a number of Windows apps. This won’t solve everythingīut wait – there’s more. One more thing: if you open Edge for any reason, you will get the expected popup asking you to return to “recommended browser settings”. The Firefox default wizard changes some (but not all) browser file settings. I let it continue, and when I went to the “Default apps” section of the setup, I found that Firefox is now set as the default for. For example, when this was written, the first time I opened Firefox, it asked if I wanted it to be the default.

Note: While you are reading this, some browsers may have installed a system that allows you to more easily change your default browser. You can replace each file type for a suitable installed application.
