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Jacques Van de Meerssche
May 10, 2019Steel Contributor
Pinned tiles open in Edge/classic instead of Edge/Chromium
I have Edge Chromium/Dev installed and set as the default web browser. It works great and when I click on a link it opens properly, except on the start screen. When I click on one of my, numerous, pi...
- May 10, 2019
Jacques Van de Meerssche it's actually because of the underlying technology. Those "start" tiles are called "secondary tiles" and are linked to the old Edge process. We have to do work on our side to 'upgrade' them when you switch default browsers. We have that work on our roadmap, but it will take a little while to get it out - it's part of Windows, not part of the Browser itself.
davequail
May 10, 2019Steel Contributor
What would the reason be that the tiles work for some users and not others?
johnjansen
Microsoft
May 10, 2019davequail it has to be due to the way they were created. If they were created in old Edge via "Pin to the Start Menu" that is different from Pin to taskbar or creating shortcuts. I believe that in this case, you are both creating them using a different technique.