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What in the love of God is a "microsoft-edge://" link, and why would someone willingly click it? This sounds like non-news.

>>quasar+(OP)
You wouldn't. Windows uses it on your behalf for a lot of things.

>>quasar+(OP)
it's a link buried inside a lot of the bundled utilities in Windows. It forces URLs to use Edge as the browser instead of your chosen default one.

Windows 11 has a news & weather popup widget that sits down by the clock, in which you can click on the live tiles shown to take you to more info on the web. This widget uses microsoft-edge:// URI scheme so Edge is ALWAYS invoked.

Mozilla tried to hack their way around it, and it's been a few weeks of cat and mouse on it. At the moment, MS are winning.

It's like they've totally forgotten the events of the IE anti-trust stuff.

>>mattow+21
Or have watched Apple's behaviour with browsers on iOS (yes I know about the Chrome, that's just a facade on top of safari's render and js engine).