There are many browsers available in internet hence the choice of making one particular browser as default comes into picture. Almost all the browsers will ask you to chose it as default browser by showing up a dialog box whenever you open that browser.
But there are times when you might have asked not to show that dialog box and now you might wanted it to be default browser for some reason. So in this post I would like to show on how you can change the default browser.
What does it mean by making a browser default ?
There are few file types that any browser can open, making a particular browser as default is nothing but allowing that particular browser to open all the file types that it can open by default instead of asking with what application you would like to open.
for example : If you have a file with name “index.html”, It has “.html” extension ( hyper text mark up language ) which should be opened by a web browser. Now if you double click the file it will be opened by your system application which is set as default for file with “.html” extension. If you want it to open with some other application then you can chose “Open With” option and select the particular application to open with.
How to make a browser Default ?
There are two ways in which you can make a particular browser as default. One of them is by changing the settings through operating system options and the other one is by looking for the option in browser to make it as default and changing the settings.
Method 1: Changing default program through windows Default program settings
1. Open run box and type the following run command to open default program settings
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%windir%system32control.exe /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms
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2. This must bring up a window like shown in below screenshot. Click on first option which says “Set your default programs”.
3. This will bring up the following window which shows the list of applications installed on your PC in left hand side and the program details on the right hand side. Select the browser application on left hand side which you want to make it as default. After selecting a particular browser you will be having two options on the right hand side, first option will let you make the browser to to be default for all the file types and protocols that it can open or alternatively you can chose the file types and protocols individually for which you want it to be default by selecting on second option.
Method 2 : Selecting browser option to set it as default.
Almost all the browsers will have an option to set itself as default browser. All we need to do is find out the option to set it as default. So here is the way on how you can make different browsers as default .
1. Make Firefox as your default browswer
To make firefox as your default browser, read the below quick tip by following URL
2. Make Google Chrome as your default browser
To Make Google Chrome as your default browser, read the below quick tip by following URL
3. Make Internet Explorer as your default browser
To make Internet Explorer as your default browser, read the below quick tip by following URL
Hope you enjoyed the article.
