"Windows 11", how to change the default browser is complicated

Microsoft's upcoming release of Windows 11 has been well received for its new user interface. However, the complexity of how to change the default browser in the preview version has raised concerns among Windows fans.

The company has long been criticized by competitors such as Vivaldi Technologies, the developer of Vivaldi, and Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, for making Microsoft Edge the default browser for Windows 10. ing.

And in the current preview version of Windows 11, as The Verge's Windows watcher Tom Warren points out, changing the default browser is more complicated than in Windows 10.

As Warren notes, if you select Settings-Apps-Default App and try to set Google Chrome etc. as the default browser, the default browser will be applied to all file types. You will be prompted to select the default browser for each file or link type instead of selecting one.

For this reason, in Chrome, the user must explicitly select HTM and HTML, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WEBP, XHT, XHTML, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS.

While Windows 11 makes it easy to specify a default browser for different file types, allowing finer choices can confuse many users.

In Windows 11, when you set a browser other than Edge, there is still a function to set the default for all file types to that browser, but this option is only once immediately after installing a new browser. Not presented.

Once set, if you try to change the default browser from the "Default apps" setting, "Before switching: Try Microsoft Edge. It's a fast, secure app for Windows 11. Dialog box is displayed.

Microsoft says Windows 11 allows users to specify where and how to choose the default browser in more detail.

This article was edited by Asahi Interactive for Japan from an article from overseas Red Ventures.