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A Tool to Redirect News, Search, Widgets, Weather and More to Your Default Browser

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#26 in Windows
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users | Sep 2023
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https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect is a decent band-aid on the problem.
Windows 11 will respect default browser for system apps in the European Union | Aug 2023
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I can recommend https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect
Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default | Jun 2023
https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect still works
Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default | Jun 2023
https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect

That should fix it, right?

I use it for quite a long time now and it works with the search bar in the startmenu.

MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry | May 2023
I wonder if MSEdgeRedirect will work around this...

https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect

No Start Menu for You | Jan 2023
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About 1), I'm using MSEdgeRedirect [1] to forward "microsoft-edge:" URIs to my default browser. Other browsers were planning to support Edge's URI scheme as well so users could change the default browser for it, but Microsoft updated that option away during Windows 10.

[1]: https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect/
Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds | Nov 2021
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You can use https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect

Also this https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector/issues/142#issuecommen... setting might me important for some people.