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Redirect Specific Webpage to Edge
Is this possible? Also I'm not sure if this is the correct place. We have a website that users are opening it in IE, but it doesn't work. It works in Edge though. So we would like to redirect that t...
Hi,
would setting Edge as the default browser work out for you?
would setting Edge as the default browser work out for you?
- Our environment is one of those 'do whatever you want'. These particular users are using IE exclusively but the website we've provided for them to use works best in Edge.
Oh well I don't have enough information about your specific environment and how the clients are manged by what type of management tools, but here is a suggestion:
make a shortcut of the new Edge (I'm using Canary) by going to its install location
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application
right-click on the "msedge.exe" and choose send to > create shortcut on desktop.
then go to the desktop shortcut you just created, right-click on it and choose properties.
in the "shortcut" tab where it says Target: , put your custom URL in there like this"C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge SxS\Application\msedge.exe" http://customwebsite.com
- Thank you for the suggestion, You're right these would be the best way to do, but I'm not sure if we're going to manage these small group of users just for this request.
It is so easy to say, 'hey, user edge as your default'
do you think it worth the effort to create a support ticket to microsoft for this odd request or no?
