1276501 - ‘Hey Cortana’ uses Edge and Bing, instead of my default Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1269075

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Vincent]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160502172042

Steps to reproduce:

Enabled Cortana, and asked it questions which would then result in opening a web page in my default browser.

‘Use this search engine for searches from Windows’ is enabled in my settings.


Actual results:

Cortana opened an instance of Microsoft Edge and searched with Bing.


Expected results:

Cortana should have used Firefox, and the default search engine on there.

The links for my searches were:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Hope+it+goes+just+doughnuts.&input=2&nclid=962BE6EDF16BF27CEAC9B3814C0BCA69&FORM=WNSSSV&cc=GB&setlang=en-US

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Let%27s+get+down+to+business+to+defeat+the+huns.&input=2&nclid=962BE6EDF16BF27CEAC9B3814C0BCA69&FORM=WNSHCO&cc=GB&setlang=en-US

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Who+stole+ariel%27s+voice%3f&input=2&nclid=962BE6EDF16BF27CEAC9B3814C0BCA69&FORM=WNSHCO&cc=GB&setlang=en-US

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Hi Vincent, unfortunately this was an intentional change by Microsoft in a recent update to Windows 10. See https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/04/28/delivering-personalized-search-experiences-in-windows-10-through-cortana/ and http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-disables-google-chrome-firefox-cortana-windows-10-2016-4

It seems like it will remain this way unless Microsoft changes their mind. You can submit feedback to them to voice your opinion.