Defenestration: an act you might just perform on your Windows 11 PC.
Windows 11 hasn’t had the best of launches. And for those that upgraded, thing’s have gotten worse.
According to Ctrl.Blog, which is run by EdgeDeflector creator Daniel Aleksandersen:
Something changed between Windows 11 builds 22483 and 22494 (both Windows Insider Preview builds.) The build changelog makes a few mentions of changes to the protocol and file associations/default apps system. However, it omitted the headline news: You can no longer bypass Microsoft Edge using apps like EdgeDeflector.
Essentially, all those proprietary Microsoft links? You can’t avoid being forced to use Edge for them, now. None of the methods to avoid having these links open in Edge work anymore. It’ll happen regardless of if you have a different browser set as your default; and to rub salt in the wound, it offers to make Edge your default browser.
This is slimy enough that Browsers like Firefox and Brave were planning on adding EdgeDeflector as a baked in feature. And now any such decisions are pointless. Aleksandersen states that with these new protocol settings, users are also unable to so much as set a default browser other than Edge. Rather, they’re forced to set specific link associations for different protocols, including the likes of https.
the really funny thing in all of this? Edge has actually been picked up by more users since the launch of its Chromium-based version, enough to make it a serious contender. So why the manipulative crap is necessary is beyond me.
Source: PC Gamer
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