Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010)

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  • MSEdgeRedirect

    A Tool to Redirect News, Search, Widgets, Weather and More to Your Default Browser

  • > Maybe I'm nuts, but the start menu's web search results seem to ignore default browser settings and only open in Edge

    You’re correct on that, Microsoft created a new link type ‘microsoft-edge:’, so that no matter what browser you use. Query’s from the search bar always get sent to Edge. They pulled a very similar move with Outlook where it now opens all links in edge, instead of in the users default browser. But for now, you can still toggle that setting back.

    If you want windows searches to open in your default browser, you have to use https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect

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