Windows 10: Why do all my links suddenly open with Edge when Firefox is my default browser and all my...

This just started happening.

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Default Browser Keeps Changing to Edge

Yes, just to confirm again, when I open FireFox before opening any other link/program/app - I get the pop-up to make FireFox my default browser and I check the box and confirm. If I also complete all of Erika's suggestions:

• Choose default apps by file type
• Choose default apps by protocol
• Set defaults by app

Then for THAT session, everything works ok. But when I shutdown and restart, it all reverts to Edge - the default browser and all my selections for default app by file type, default app by protocol and defaults by app..

If I ONLY open FireFox before opening any other link/program/app and make it my default browser, but then click on a link within an Outlook mail - the link will open in Edge.

What confuses me about Erika's sentence: "Set your preferred default browser to skip
Choose default apps by file type." is the part about 'set your preferred default browser to skip' is this a setting within FireFox after making it my default browser? Because I am changing default apps by file type on the Windows Settings
page and choosing http and https to be connected to FireFox instead of Edge.

Regardless, any changes that I make are changed back to Edge after a shutdown or restart and I am completely frustrated by having to reset everything each time I start my computer.

 

How do I make Firefox my default browser on a Windows 10 laptop

Step 5 is incorrect; when I go to choose an app, the only choices are Edge, IE, or Chrome; Firefox is not listed.

 

I would like to use firefox as the default browser that opens start menu links in Windows 10 start menu.

Hi Thaddeus..

Follow these steps to change a default browser back to Firefox.

1.Click the menu button

and choose Options.

2.In the General panel, click Make Default….

3.The Windows Settings app will open with the Choose default apps screen.

4.Scroll down and click the entry under Web browser. In this case, the icon will say either Microsoft Edge or Choose your default browser.

5.In the Choose an app screen, click Firefox to set it as the default browser.

6. Firefox is now listed as your default browser. Close the window to save your changes.

Please revert back for further Assistance.

Hope it helps