So, you no longer need to install EdgeDeflector if you’re using Brave as your default browser. The Brave web browser added support for the microsoft-edge: URL scheme with version 1.30.86, released last week. I created EdgeDeflector to also recognizes them and rewrites them to regular https: links that would then open in your default web browser. Only its Edge browser recognized these links, so it would open regardless of your default browser setting. Instead of using regular https: links, Microsoft began switching out links in the Windows shell and its apps with microsoft-edge: links. The latter issue is something I addressed in 2017 with the release of EdgeDeflector. It made it more difficult to change the default web browser and has expanded the use of links that force-opens Edge instead of the default browser. ![]() Microsoft has inadvertently re-heated the web browser wars with the company’s anti-competitive changes to Windows 11.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |