You’re free to add as many URLs to the code as you want. You need to replace these URLs with the sites that you want to open on your PC.
Windows 10 will use your default web browser. I’d keep an eye on this app, though.The code above opens three sites, as you can see for yourself. Unfortunately, while that worked for most links, when I clicked on a link from the news sources in the Widgets pane, it didn’t quite work - the link opened in Chrome, but none of the graphics came through. I installed and followed the directions for setup. I did a little browsing and read that its latest version, v1.2.3.0, would work with Windows 11. You can set the Brave browser to open widget links.Īnother possibility is a tool called EdgeDeflector that was originally created to intercept any links in Windows 10 that were Edge-specific and rewrite them on the fly so that they can be opened by the default web browser.
But if you install the Brave browser, you will see it as an option - and if you select that, then whenever you click on a news link in the Widget pane, it will come up in Brave. Interestingly, if you install Chrome or Firefox, you won’t see them as choices.
Click on that, and you’ll see any other browsers that you can use to open those specialized links.
PDF (unless you have another PDF reader you prefer). Look for the file types that were assigned to Edge, such as.
The “Set default” will switch important file types to your browser. When you click on the Set default button, some of them - but not necessarily all - will switch from Edge to your preferred browser.
If you don’t want Edge to be your default browser, and your favorite browser isn’t offering to make the change for you - or if it did offer but instead sent you to the Default apps page mentioned above - here’s how to switch the default. So you may not get that handy request - or if you do, it may land you on a complicated-looking page headed App > Default apps. However, the process for changing your defaults in Windows 11 has become more complicated than it was in Windows 10. Normally, the first time you go into another browser that is not Edge - say, Google Chrome - the not-Edge browser will ask if you’d like to make it the default instead. Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11