Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings

ghariksforge, 10 months ago

Outlook has a separate setting for opening links. It’s very sneaky:

winhelponline.com/…/outlook-hyperlinks-edge-defau…

Cris_Color, 10 months ago

Thats a helpful pointer, thanks :)

Jo, 10 months ago

Thanks for this. Turns out they also made it hard to make anything other than Edge your default browser (you have to set it separately for each file extension). How to fix that here:

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

comedy, 10 months ago

Why are they so unbelievably desperate to force people to use Edge?

lixus98, 10 months ago

Tracking, ads, money.

alternative_factor, 10 months ago

I was thinking since edge is just the new internet explorer the answer might be even dumber- forcing it continues justifying its existence and development.

N00b22, 10 months ago

More like Asshole Design

A_S_B, 10 months ago

This sound like a great way to die by thousands of lawsuits. We really need to squash this goddamed company.

BoastfulDaedra, 10 months ago

They’re more like default browser suggestions, really…

Rathernotsay, 10 months ago

I guess we are never regulating tech companies again even though this behavior was already blocked by the FTC Microsoft case twenty years ago.

andrewtate, 10 months ago

Use Thunderbird

tdgoodman, 10 months ago

As much as I love Thunderbird, I do not want to retrain Outlook users. I just want Microsoft to use my chosen browser.

Mon0, 10 months ago

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grepe, 10 months ago

Edge is not the default in work environments. My old company was a MS shop and they still were forcing everyone to use Chrome because - of all things - MS Dynamics 365 web interface was buggy in other browsers (including Edge)…

jemorgan, 10 months ago

Sort of related, but this reminds me of a really annoying thing that’s been happening on my work windows 11 machine.

Any time I launch chrome from VSCode to attach a debugger, edge launches along with it, and directs me to a page that says “try the new bing.”

Absolutely infuriating, makes me want to uninstall edge.

yokonzo, 10 months ago

I mean, why not just uninstall edge then?

jedibob5, 10 months ago

Good luck with that lmao

yokonzo, 10 months ago

You can absolutely do it, the one that comes to mind is a small batch file you can download that disables it. I know there’s plenty of other ways too though if you’re not comfortable with that

cyberpunk007, 10 months ago

Microsoft: "you no want Microsoft? You want Microsoft. "

zzz, 9 months ago

Weren’t they literally sued and almost broken up for doing something like this by antitrust prosecutors like 25 years ago?

Lanky_Pomegranate530, 10 months ago

Thanks for giving me another reason not to use outlook.

Ishigami, 10 months ago

You company doesn’t give you a choice lol.

Reptorian, 10 months ago

Outlook is a thing? News to me.

Sarcasm asides, I use Thunderbird. I’m convinced it was the correct choice now.

light5speed, 10 months ago

Microsoft always pushing things way too much, unnecessarily.

But I actually like the feature. I use Outlook for corporate email and Edge for work related stuff. Firefox is my default browser. It was always confusing to open a link on an email message on the “wrong” browser.

Now this doesn’t happen. Links on emails open correctly on the work browser.

But we should definitely have an option to choose which browser we would like the links to open on.

mmagod, 10 months ago

Oh crap, I thought it was just something I overlooked at work. It has been happening to me too

Innocent_Bystander, 10 months ago

Facebook is dying this to me now too, everyone opening with their in app browser

neryam, 10 months ago

Google Chat desktop app does the same thing but opens all links in chrome. I need to use both teams and chat for my company and client’s teams so I’m constantly getting one or the other browser opened on me. Infuriating