Windows 10: new messenger opens links in EDGE instead of default browser.

HiI just made the asked the messenger update, and now all external links opens up in EDGE instead of my default browser. And I see no option to set it back.

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Links from discord and facebook messenger open opera not edge. Edge is my default browser.

Hi Joey,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I'm Hahn and I'm here to help you with your concern.

To ensure that all links from apps like Discord and Facebook Messenger open in Microsoft Edge, you can follow these steps:



1. Open the Windows Settings by pressing `Win + I` on your keyboard.

2. Navigate to Apps and then to Default apps.

3. Scroll down and click on Choose default apps by protocol.

4. Locate MICROSOFT-EDGE in the list and click on the program icon to the right of it.

5. From the list, select Microsoft Edge to set it as the default for the protocol.

6. Confirm the change if prompted.



After doing this, links from Discord, Facebook Messenger, and other apps should open in Microsoft Edge by default. If you encounter any issues, make sure that Microsoft Edge is also set as the default browser for HTTP and HTTPS protocols in the same Default apps settings. If the problem persists, you might want to check if there are any specific settings within those apps that determine link handling, which might need to be adjusted as well.

Your Sincerely

| Microsoft Community Support Specialist

 

Default Browser Keeps Changing to Edge

Yes, just to confirm again, when I open FireFox before opening any other link/program/app - I get the pop-up to make FireFox my default browser and I check the box and confirm. If I also complete all of Erika's suggestions:

• Choose default apps by file type
• Choose default apps by protocol
• Set defaults by app

Then for THAT session, everything works ok. But when I shutdown and restart, it all reverts to Edge - the default browser and all my selections for default app by file type, default app by protocol and defaults by app..

If I ONLY open FireFox before opening any other link/program/app and make it my default browser, but then click on a link within an Outlook mail - the link will open in Edge.

What confuses me about Erika's sentence: "Set your preferred default browser to skip
Choose default apps by file type." is the part about 'set your preferred default browser to skip' is this a setting within FireFox after making it my default browser? Because I am changing default apps by file type on the Windows Settings
page and choosing http and https to be connected to FireFox instead of Edge.

Regardless, any changes that I make are changed back to Edge after a shutdown or restart and I am completely frustrated by having to reset everything each time I start my computer.

 

Installing Flash opens Chrome instead of default browser

I use IE, Edge and Firefox, with IE as default browser. Edge/IE of course get Flash through Windows Update but periodically I have to install Flash for Firefox. I can confirm that the expected behaviour of the Flash installer is, on completion, to open your default browser at a page saying...

This is just an advert, not a necessary step in the install, but it is labelled as 'Step 3 of 3'. Steps 1 and 2 were seen in Firefox, the browser I started the install from, as the first two steps in installing/updating Flash. The install requires the browser to be restarted to be complete, so it opens the 'Step 3' page itself in the default browser. It has always amused me that it opens IE and not the Firefox I was installing it for.

I don't have Chrome, so can't test the behaviour described, but I have never seen anything other than my default browser open. I've just tested reinstalling Flash in Firefox, only IE opened on completion.