If you’ve upgraded your PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11, you may have noticed that when you click on a link to a website, a PDF document, or a variety of other file types, you will now be sent to Microsoft’s Edge browser. . In its new version of Windows, Microsoft seems to have become especially aggressive in pushing its own apps over the apps that had been installed by default before the update. In other words, Edge suddenly became your default browser.
Typically, the first time you enter a non-Edge browser (for example, Google Chrome), the non-Edge browser will ask you if you want to make it the default. However, the process to change defaults in Windows 11 has become more complicated than in Windows 10. So, you may not receive that helpful prompt, or if you do, it may take you to a complicated-looking page titled Application > Default applications. Either way, here’s how to switch.
