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Why You Might Want to Set Gmail as the Default in Windows 10 You should have completed this in an earlier step. Make sure that the switch for “Allow sites to ask to become default handlers for protocols (recommended)” is on.Click on “Settings” and select “Cookies and site permissions.” Next, click on “Protocol handlers.” You can also just type: edge://settings/content/handlers into the browser and hit “Enter”.Open up Microsoft Edge and click on “Settings and more”, located at the top-right corner of the browser.Click on the drop-down menu and select “Use Gmail.” In the General Settings tab, scroll down until you see “Applications” and locate the “mailto” app.Locate the “Settings” menu and select it.Open up your Firefox browser and click “Open Application Menu”.Setting up Gmail as the default program for your browser to use is easy. If you ever want to go back to using Edge as default just repeat the steps listed above but, in step 5, choose ‘Edge’ instead of ‘Google Chrome’.How to Set up Your Browser to Open Mailto Links in Gmail by Default

You can still continue to use Microsoft Edge this process does not delete it. Next time you click on a web-link in another app, for example on Twitter or in an e-mail, the resulting web-page will open in Google Chrome and not Microsoft Edge. Select Google Chrome from the list that appears. Scroll down to the section headed ‘ Web browser’ and click on the icon underneath (it will either read ‘Microsoft Edge’).ĥ. Select ‘ Default Apps’ from the left-hand column:Ĥ. It doesn’t matter which version of Windows you upgrade from the way you change defaults is different in Windows 10.ģ. (Yes, it’s annoying that you have to do it in the firs place, but since it only takes a few clicks it’s not worth getting too angsty about.) How to change default browser on Windows 10 The good news is that changing the default browser in Windows 10 is easy to do. Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has written an open letter to Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, chastising the move as limiting users’ choice and ‘rolling the clock back’ to the dark days of the browser wars.

This decision has raised the ire of both users and browser makers’ alike. ‘It’s actually really easy to change default browser in Windows 10’įor internet related actives in Windows 10 Microsoft will use its shiny new, and very nimble, Edge web browser by default.