How to stop Edge that starts even if you change the default browser in Windows 10

Desktop Web Browser Share (Japan) April 2020 -April 2021

That said, Google Chrome's popularity is overwhelming in Japan.60 % of users use Google Chrome as the default Web browser.Microsoft sets Microsoft Edge for the default web browser in Windows 10, so many users use Google Chrome instead of Microsoft's recommended web browsers.

However, Google Chrome, which has been increasing so far, has been flat in recent years.It must be a convenient web browser, but since Microsoft has developed Microsoft Edge using Chromium, which is based on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge has increased to increase the number of Microsoft Edge users.There is.

In addition, although it is a small number on share, there are a certain number of users who prefer web browsers such as Brave and Firefox who hate excessive tracking by advertising vendors, and a certain number of users who prefer a characteristic web browser like Vivaldi.is doing.Advanced users are choosing a web browser according to what they want.

How to change the default browser with Windows 10

The default web browser of Windows 10 is set in Edge, but this setting can be changed.If you select "App" → "Default App" → "Web Browser" from the configuration application, it should be set to Microsoft Edge at first.You can change the default web browser by clicking this icon and selecting another web browser.

For example, the next screenshot is an example of a default web browser for Firefox.Firefox is installed first, and the settings have been changed in the next step.

Now you can change the default web browser of Windows 10 to Firefox.This change can also be made from Firefox.If Microsoft Edge is set in the default web browser, other web browsers will suggest how to set them to the default Web browser, so they will switch by pressing the button according to the proposal.Any method is fine, but there is no loss in knowing that the default web browser can be changed.

Still, Microsoft Edge starts

Even if the default web browser is set in a web browser other than Microsoft Edge, some processes will forcibly launch Microsoft Edge.This can be confirmed by execution as follows.Start "Run with the file name" in "Windows" + "R", and here "Microsoft-Edge: https: // News.MyNavi.Enter jp/and press the OK button.

Then, the web page is opened in Microsoft Edge as follows.

In this way, even if the default web browser is set other than Microsoft Edge, it cannot be replaced to be specified to process using Microsoft Edge.

How to change Microsoft Edge specified processing to another web browser

Windows 10 (at least in Windows 10, Version 20h2), and even if the default web browser is changed, some processes are set to launch Microsoft Edge.Start the setting application and check it.From the configuration application, select "App" → "Default app" → "Select a default app for each protocol".

Then, as in the next screenshot, HTTP and HTTPS have changed to Firefox, but it can be seen that Microsoft-Edge, Microsoft-Edge-Holographic, and SMS are selected for Microsoft Edge.Even if you change the default web browser, these protocols are still setting Microsoft Edge.

Then, it is necessary to set this part to Firefox, but it is not possible to select Firefox for this item.Basically, Microsoft Edge is used.

But it is not without hands.Betanews is May 7 (US time) on "How to Force Web Links To Open in Your Default Browser on Windows 10, Not Microsoft Edge", using an open source helper application called "EdgeDeflector".This section introduces how to open it with a default web browser that has changed the process set to use Edge.

In some cases, the methods introduced cannot be applied without a few changes, but basically, the processing can be changed by using the applications that are featured.It is not a software provided by Microsoft, so it is not a recommended method other than the advanced user, but if you want to use another web browser for the Microsoft Edge, if you want to use another web browser, consider this method.It may be good.

In the case of the featured, first acquire the latest "Edgedeflector" from the next page and install it.In addition, if you use Microsoft Edge, you will not be able to download it in the first place, so you need to use another web browser.

I think Windows 10 will refuse to install "Edgedeflector", but this is also permitted and installed.Then, on the screen of the previous settings, you can select "Edgedeflector" as an application to process the Microsoft-Edge protocol.

The setting is now complete.Let's do the same thing that we did in "Run and execute the file name" earlier.The Microsoft Edge has started earlier, but this time the web page should be opened in the default web browser as follows:

To restore the settings, you need to take the opposite step.If you do it carefully, return the settings from "Edgedeflector" to "Microsoft Edge" and then uninstall "EdgeDeflector".You can just uninstall "Edgedeflector".

For uninstalling "Edgedeflector", you can select "EdgeDeflector" from "App" → "Apps and Functions" from the configuration application and click "Uninstall".

I don't think there is much need to switch the web browser so far, but if you can't forgive Microsoft Edge, instead of the default web application you sometimes set, consider this method.It may be good.

(In the Betanews article, it introduces how to switch the default Web browser "Edgedeflector", but I think that the method is no longer available in recent versions. In that case, as in this article, the protocol setting is directly changed. do it)