1738690 - Making Firefox the default browser in Windows 11 is a headache

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Win32, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

To change the default browser in Windows 11 requires a lot more work/steps from the user than Windows 10 did.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-default-web-browser-windows-11

It looks like Edge is able to take care of all that as a single click though - see 'the "Make default" button makes the browser the new default without additional steps' in the page linked above.

Can we also do this, or is MS using some internal API that is inaccessible to other browsers (yikes!)?

Comment 1

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Oops, sorry.

Comment 2

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Firefox is supposed to have already done that:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox

What Windows 11 version did you test with? It works with build 22489 for me.

Comment 3

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Also works with 22000.258/22000.282.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Ah, I was just reading a blog post about it being an issue for Firefox and assumed the author was experiencing the issue themselves. (I can't find the post now, unfortunately.) If this is actually working then we can close this bug. Sorry for the noise.