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Dev channel update to 78.0.244.0 is live
DavidGB No, I'm currently using Windows 7. I can assure you I've been looking for that option and the only browsers that I can use as my default browser are Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
OK, I just booted up my old Windows 7 laptop for only the second time since getting the Windows 10 one in June 2018.
I ignored all the applications screaming at me to update them, used a complaining out of date Firefox to download the Windows 7 Edge Dev, closed Firefox and installed Edge Dev. I then set Edge Dev as the default for everything it can be default for, started my old email app, opened an old email with html links in it, and clicked on a link.
Edge Dev started and displayed the link, rather than Firefox which would have before I set Edge Dev as the default.
So I assure YOU that Edge Dev can be the default browser in Windows 7. Well, a Windows 7 that hasn't had a bunch of updates, anyway.
Control panel > Default Programs >Set your default programs > Select Microsoft Edge Dev in the panel on the left. Then 'Select this program as default' to set it as default for everything it can handle, or ue the 'Choose defaults for this program' if you want to specify just some filetypes and protocols for it to be the default for.
Ignore that my S.O. it's in Spanish language. That's the same route you gave me (and the same one I tried months ago).
As you can see Edge is not in the list. Need more proofs?
Krauser366What that proves is the issue is your computer - unless Microsoft are deliberately restricting the installers of non-English versions of Edge, which would be easy enough to test by trying the English installer.
The installer, when run, should register Edge Dev as able to handle assorted protocols, like web fetches, and various filetypes like .htm and .html, which it inserts into the Registry. That then automatically adds Edge Dev to that list of programs to make default, and also to the 'Open with' list in the right-click menu when a file is selected if it is one of the filetypes it handles. (DOES Edge Dev appear in the 'open with' in the right click menu if you have an .htm or .html file selected?)
That the installer is fine and does this is clear: it's done it on my Windows 10 machine, and it has done it on my old Windows 7 machine on which I HAVE set it as the default, and web links in other programs now launch Edge Dev, and all previously saved .HTM and .HTML files now show with the Edge Dev icon in the filer windows and double-clicking on them opens them in Edge Dev, not Firefox which supplied their icons and loaded them previously.
So, unless there is a restriction in non-English versions (my system is EN-GB, not EN-US), the issue is actually your system and how it is set up, not at Microsoft's end, so asking them in this forum to fix it is futile. Something is stopping the installer creating the entries in the Registry on your system.
Did you, when you ran the installer, deliberately run it 'as administrator'? If not, that's the first thing I'd try. If that doesn't enable the installer to create the Registry entries so it appears in the Setting Default and Open with lists, then it is a question of looking at what security type programs you are running that might be preventing the installer altering the registry.
So, if I were you I'd (1) try installing the English version to see if it is a locale limitation; (2) run the installer as administrator if you didn't originally; (3) have a hard look at any security software that may block some things from amending the Registry.