Microsoft restores individual “default browser” setting in Windows 11 preview

Microsoft restores individual “default browser” setting in Windows 11 preview

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/browser-switching-gets-marginally-easier-in-latest-windows-11-preview/

It's been a rough week for Microsoft's Edge browser in the court of public opinion as users grumbled about the addition of a controversial "buy now, pay later" financing feature and another layer of pop-up messages that tries to dissuade users from installing Google Chrome. But Microsoft isn't totally unresponsive to user criticism when it comes to Edge—the latest Dev channel Windows Insider build of Windows 11 restores a button in the Settings app for setting your default browser, something that existed in Windows 10 but is missing from the current stable version of Windows 11.

Microsoft restores individual “default browser” setting in Windows 11 preview

Dec 3, 2021, 5:17pm UTC
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/browser-switching-gets-marginally-easier-in-latest-windows-11-preview/ > It's been a rough week for Microsoft's Edge browser in the court of public opinion as users grumbled about the addition of a controversial "buy now, pay later" financing feature and another layer of pop-up messages that tries to dissuade users from installing Google Chrome. But Microsoft isn't totally unresponsive to user criticism when it comes to Edge—the latest Dev channel Windows Insider build of Windows 11 restores a button in the Settings app for setting your default browser, something that existed in Windows 10 but is missing from the current stable version of Windows 11.