Microsoft’s Windows 11 to make it easier to change default browsers

Priya Shah
Dec 7, 2021

Microsoft is still testing these new Windows 11 changes that make it easier to switch default apps and browsers

Microsoft has backtracked on its controversial default browser changes in Windows 11 and will soon allow users of Chrome, Firefox and other browsers to set a default browser with a single button.

Reports surfaced in August that Microsoft’s upcoming release of Windows 11 will make it harder to switch default browsers.

In a latest statement to The Verge, Microsoft said: “In the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 released to the Dev Channel on Wednesday, we streamlined the ability for a Windows Insider to set the ‘default browser’ to apps that register for HTTP:, HTTPS:, .HTM, and .HTML”.

“Through the Windows Insider Programme, you will continue to see us try…read more

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