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MicrosoftEdge Chromium Preview as default browser
danholme You aren't missing anything. W10 in S mode locks you into Edge.
Unless you hear something different from one of the Microsoft employees that participate in this forum, I think you will just have to put up with it.
From https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4020089/windows-10-in-s-mode-faq : "Can I set Google Chrome or Firefox as my default web browser when I'm using Windows 10 in S mode? No. When you're using Windows 10 in S mode, Microsoft Edge is always the default web browser, and Bing is the default search engine. But you can access other browsers and search engines while in S mode. You can download any browser available in the Microsoft Store in Windows, and you can navigate to any other search engine website."
I suspect that W10 S treats Edge Chromium is a "foreign" browser, that is, not-Edge, and accordingly Edge Chromium is treated no differently than Firefox or Chrome.
danholme You aren't missing anything. W10 in S mode locks you into Edge.
Unless you hear something different from one of the Microsoft employees that participate in this forum, I think you will just have to put up with it.
From https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4020089/windows-10-in-s-mode-faq : "Can I set Google Chrome or Firefox as my default web browser when I'm using Windows 10 in S mode? No. When you're using Windows 10 in S mode, Microsoft Edge is always the default web browser, and Bing is the default search engine. But you can access other browsers and search engines while in S mode. You can download any browser available in the Microsoft Store in Windows, and you can navigate to any other search engine website."
I suspect that W10 S treats Edge Chromium is a "foreign" browser, that is, not-Edge, and accordingly Edge Chromium is treated no differently than Firefox or Chrome.
tomscharbach the same behavior in Windows 7. Edge installed with offline pack can be set as default browser but online installer pack doesn't.
Thanks for confirming this hooddy took me 30 mins to find this post and thought i was goign crazy trying to work out how to make edge the default browser in Windows 7
