Despite the arrival of Windows 11, the requirements that prevent any computer from updating to this version of the Microsoft operating system mean that many users still use Windows 10, so this version still requires updates that improve or correct certain aspects.
In the next 22H2 update, which should arrive during the month of September, we will be able to free ourselves from one of the impositions with which Windows 10 gives us the most war, that of the default browser, which does not miss an opportunity to try to be Microsoft Edge.
Change default browser in one click
If you are a Windows user, you will already be used to them trying to make you use Edge frequently . Fortunately, it is not an essential requirement, but they do not miss an opportunity for your default browser to change from the one you use to Edge and if it slips, it slips.
As we can see from a GIF shared on Twitter by user Leopeva64 , the combination of Chrome Dev version 106.0.5231.2 with the future Windows 10 22H2 update, which many are already testing after being leaked, will make us return to the old system of changing default browser in just one click , as the image above demonstrates.
In this way, if Edge takes over the default browser, we can reverse the process more easily than the usual route, which requires entering the default applications section in the options and settings menu (or typing Default applications in the search bar) and there select the web browser that we want to open the links by default.
Chrome Dev is typically nine to 12 weeks ahead of the stable version of Chrome, according to Google’s FAQ. Windows 10 22H2 is coming this September. Apparently, this change will not have an effect on Windows 11 , where we will also have to go to the default applications menu and choose the one we want.
Edge Blocker Toolkit
Another alternative if you use a computer where you use an alternative browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is that you directly disable Microsoft Edge and, in this way, it cannot even be configured as the default.
In case you don’t want the Edge browser on your OS , you have the option to install a blocker that Microsoft released called the Edge Blocker Toolkit , which will block the automatic installation of Edge, but won’t block the manual installation of it on your OS. in case at some point you want to put it. To install it, just go to this Microsoft help page and download the executable file, which basically adds a line to the registry to prevent downloading and installing the browser.