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What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

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[–] oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True on Windows 10, but on the release version of Windows 11 it was a bit more complicated:

https://www.theverge.com/22714629/windows-11-microsoft-browser-edge-chrome-firefox

Even today setting Firefox or any Chromium derivative as the default will still let Windows open many things in Edge without any obvious way to change that.