With Windows 10 22H2 and Chrome Dev, apparently you can now change your default browser with one click, from within the browser itself.GIF by Leopeva64
As of this March, switching your default browser in Windows 11 was already improved to just a few clicks in a settings menu, but you can see how older Windows 10s are even cleaner than that. And with the Chrome and Windows 10 22H2 updates, it looks like you can just tap the popup in the browser itself (in this case, Chrome Dev version 106.0.5231.2) to set it up right away. It would definitely be nice to have it on Windows 11 as well. If you add the fact that competing browsers like Firefox and Opera already support the same kind of one-click, in-browser switching of default apps, we could be entering a new golden age where browsers can truly compete based on their benefits rather than asking or pushing. you are around Just click to switch your browser as often as you like until you get the one you want. I wouldn’t count on it, necessarily, as Microsoft isn’t the only browser maker to be pushy with prompts. And it’s not clear if this one-tap feature will work at all in Windows 11. My colleague Tom just tried it with the 22H2 update (you could install the build preview from June) and just pushed him in the menu settings without doing absolutely nothing. It didn’t work for me on Windows 11 21H2 either. Correction, 6:34 p.m. ET: It’s Windows 10 that Leopeva64 is showing off, not Windows 11 as we originally wrote. Sorry for the mistake. Update, 7:05 PM ET: Added that it is currently not working for us on Windows 11, even with the 22H2 update.
