I haven’t seen a recent post about this.

This is a handy tool to have for anyone sick of Microsoft’s shit and those who are slowly transitioning out of their ecosystem. It forces Windows to open your default browser instead of Edge every time you accidentally click on certain links in the Start menu, the toolbar widget, or open the help page by pressing F1.

It’s simple to install and also lets you customize other actions shown below:

As shown in the image, the additional redirections include Bing Discover, Bing Search, MSN News, MSN Weather, Bing Images, PDF Viewer. Additionally, you can disable CoPilot, redirect Spotlight, Bing Chat, and Windows Store Apps.

Official site: MSEdgeRedirect.com

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldOP
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    That’s easy to say, but not everyone has the luxury of switching to Linux and investing the time in troubleshooting it. I can’t even develop my plugins properly on Linux as it is, and I’ve already spent too much time trying.

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      The people working on Nobara project have done 95% of the troubleshooting. Ive yet to have any issues since switching, even added a video capture card in a windows system and it didn’t work, put it on my sys running nobara and it worked after booting.