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louisparker
Jul 03, 2025Copper Contributor
Application Links Disappeared in Edge Settings
Greetings, I hope that you're doing well. A website that I frequently visit continuously prompts to become the default protocol handler of MAILTO: links. The previous versions of Microsoft Edge ...
natereprogle
Aug 21, 2025Copper Contributor
Also seeing the same behavior. The removal of this setting makes it impossible to unregister or remove this permission from sites that already have access to it. Not only is this frustrating for users but could also enable malicious sites to do some crafty things with protocol handlers since the permissions are hidden and therefore impossible to revoke.
Worse yet, if a site asks to register a protocol handler, if you click the "Manage" button in the popup, it attempts to open edge://settings/handlers but then redirects to edge://settings/profiles because the handlers page has been removed. What gives?