Microsoft disallows blocking Edge in search bar

Earlier this year, Microsoft already complicated changing the default browser in Windows 11, and now targeting third-party applications that allow you to change the browser to search through the Start menu. Even if the user has changed the default browser in Windows 10 or Windows 11, the system still uses Edge and Bing to display quick search results.

Until now, utilities like EdgeDeflector have been able to change this and open the output through Chrome or whatever. the browser selected by the user, and Firefox does allow you to change this setting without additional programs. But in a new pre-build of Windows 11, which will be released to all users in a few weeks, we found a blockage EdgeDeflector and other programs that redirect the microsoft-edge protocol so that the desired one opens instead of Edge browser.

Microsoft representatives have already gave a comment The Verge, from which it clearly follows that this is not a bug and the situation will not change for the public release of the update: “Windows openly accepts various applications and services, including web browsers. However, some features in Windows 10 and Windows 11 cannot be changed — for example, search through the Start menu is not designed to be redirected. "

EdgeDeflector Creator notesthat 500 thousand users of the application were hardly a big threat to Microsoft, which cannot be said about the base Firefox and Bravo users - the first of which has already introduced a similar function, and the second announced its release in soon.