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website-files after Edge is default browser
User's website files (Shortcut.website) (dragged from IE to anywhere) are not opened in Edge, if Edge is default browser. They still open with old IE. That's not nice. Any solutions for this?
Edge doesn't handle .website Files Syntax, even if you configure Edge to open .website Files manually.
But I would noch see this as a bug, I use this as a Feature.
Drag&Drop a Site from Edge (or any other Browser) to Desktop creates a .url which opens with the Configured (modern) Default Browser. The same with IE creates a .website File which opens with IE. It doesn't make sense for me to open a Desktop-Shortcut I created with IE with Edge, I really like it to open with IE again.
I never said, that this is a bug.
But our users have only used IE (and not Edge) and placed this kind of internet links in the start menu and on the desktop.
If the default browser is switched, they extected that even this links are then opened in der default browser.
Users will complain that internet links (depending on type .URL or .WEBSITE) would open in different browsers. And what is if I remove the IE from the OS?
1. there is no way to remove IE
2. It is easy to write a Script which converts all .website Files into .URL Files - both File-Formats are human-readable Textfiles in INI-Style, so you can easily just generate a .URL File with a [InternetShortcut] Header and put the URL=... line out of the .website File into a new .URL File.
