When an app on windows needs to access the browser for some reason, it usually opens the default browser, which you can set yourself. Microsoft has made it so that every application that has the microsoft-edge scheme will open the edge browser and there's no way to change this, except to intercept this via a third party process. In pratice, that means that every link that opens a browser in all of Windows and on every Microsoft first party application (so Outlook, Office, etc) will open Edge. It doesn't necessarily cover every application, unless Microsoft decides to silently change every scheme to microsoft-edge (that is, changing every URL from http:// to microsoft-edge:// on the fly, which would be incredibly nasty) In addition to this, Microsoft already made it very cumbersome to change the default browser to begin with (AFAIK, you need to manually enable your browser on an extension by extension basis, very shitty)
Can something explain? I don't know what this means
When an app on windows needs to access the browser for some reason, it usually opens the default browser, which you can set yourself. Microsoft has made it so that every application that has the microsoft-edge scheme will open the edge browser and there's no way to change this, except to intercept this via a third party process. In pratice, that means that every link that opens a browser in all of Windows and on every Microsoft first party application (so Outlook, Office, etc) will open Edge. It doesn't necessarily cover every application, unless Microsoft decides to silently change every scheme to microsoft-edge (that is, changing every URL from http:// to microsoft-edge:// on the fly, which would be incredibly nasty) In addition to this, Microsoft already made it very cumbersome to change the default browser to begin with (AFAIK, you need to manually enable your browser on an extension by extension basis, very shitty)
Wow, that's really awful. Thanks for explaining