Microsoft has made it mandatory that the links we see in Windows search and other places open through Microsoft Edge. There is a tool called EdgeDeflector that was developed to bypass this but ...

Normally, ordinary links starting with 'https: //' will open in any browser that is set as the default browser. However, the links provided by Microsoft's voice assistant Cortana and some of the links ...

EdgeDeflector changes the behavior of the new News and Interests widget which is now forced on everyone by default, and ignores using your default browser when links are opened from it. This little ...

Microsoft plans to update Windows 11 to block a workaround that has allowed users to open Start menu search results in a browser other than Edge. The loophole was popularized by EdgeDeflector, an app ...

You may have heard about EdgeDeflector from an article we did in which we feature it as a way to change the behavior of the new News and Interests widget that ignores ...

Microsoft has been adding new ways in Windows 11 to try to get more users to go with its Edge browser. Earlier this year, it changed the way users could set their default browsers, adding a bunch of ...

In Windows, some links are set to launch in the Microsoft browser 'Microsoft Edge' regardless of the default browser setting. For this reason, free software was developed to avoid booting in Edge, and ...