Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
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Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
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Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#2Seems to be mostly for MS to override the default (non-Edge) browser?
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#3An interesting possible usage of this was that it allowed to open a link in Edge from within IE11 (which is better than just saying "IE not supported") - although I never spotted this being used in the wild on real websites.
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#4Seems to be mostly for MS to override the default (non-Edge) browser?
Agreed, this is a user-hostile move. The entire point of separating protocols from programs is because the user can choose which implementation should be used on any given protocol.
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#5Seems to be mostly for MS to override the default (non-Edge) browser?
Yup, like every single link in the start menu will use Edge no matter what browser you have set to as default. Great user experience.
Edit: I see now the author is actually an Project Manager at Microsoft, that's why this is highlighted as a Good Feature and not a bug.
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#6At which point will it be less work to just switch to a sane operating system and maybe use windows in a VM if you need some specific application?
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Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#8This title is misleading to what the article is actually talking about and judging by the responses, that was all that was read.
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#9This title is misleading to what the article is actually talking about and judging by the responses, that was all that was read.
The title should probably be "Forcing Windows to load a specific URL in a Edge" as the article only talks about Windows and Edge specifically.
Overall I think you can expect the responses this got based on the author talking about "The purpose of this URL scheme is to enable Windows and cooperating applications to invoke particular user-experiences in the Edge browser" while as a Windows user, the only time I hit this "feature" is when I click on a link and expect it to open in Firefox (my selected default browser) but instead for some stupid reason it uses Edge regardless.
Surely this will be used against Microsoft in some future anti-trust suit to show how Microsoft still tries to get rid of their competition by ignoring user choice.
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#10i'm waiting to hit this "edge case". i had to