[Mozilla Enterprise] Setting FF as default browser in Win10

Timo Pietilä timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
Tue Nov 26 11:12:18 UTC 2019


On 26.11.2019 12.53, Marco Gaiarin wrote:

> 
> But on win10 seems that does not work, users still have 'edge' as
> default browser.
> 
> 
> Why?! Thanks.

Short answer: Windows 10.

A bit longer answer: Windows 10 decides default programs, not the 
programs, so there are no longer any easy way to set default program 
programmatically. Also with every feature update those are reset to 
whatever M$ thinks you should be using (Edge) and you need to set them 
again.

There are plenty of examples in the net how to import/export file 
associations using GPO and XML and stuff like that, but any 
"setasdefaultappuser" -type switches wont work anymore. Not easily 
anyway. At least I don't know any easy method of changing that.

Timo Pietilä


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