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[return to "Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround"]
1. cosmot+4a[view] [source] 2021-12-16 17:12:05
>>beezle+(OP)
As far as I know, the workaround is no longer needed

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...

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2. Someon+Qa[view] [source] 2021-12-16 17:14:51
>>cosmot+4a
You're conflating two different issues; Windows 11's broken/anti-competitive default browser changing UI has been improved (although annoying popups remain), but those defaults are only used by non-Microsoft software.

Microsoft's other software uses "microsoft-edge://" links which simply ignore the user's default browser choice and open in Edge. When a workaround was found to fix this (i.e. to obey the user's choice), Microsoft blocked it.

Plus Microsoft rushed out this Edge-link workaround patch to retail, while sitting on the default browser UI improvements until next year.

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