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When I click on a web link in my Emails mails, Thunderbird trys to connect with windows edge ,I don't use this browser ,it just flashes but no connection, this

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When I try to click on a link to the net in my mail It flicks to Windows Edge then nothing, I do not use windows browser and try to use as little of windows appa as I can how can i get Thunderbird to open links with my browser

When I try to click on a link to the net in my mail It flicks to Windows Edge then nothing, I do not use windows browser and try to use as little of windows appa as I can how can i get Thunderbird to open links with my browser

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My guess is that chrome is not fully setup as your browser. All Thunderbird does with links, unless you have modified the default handlers is pass the link to the operating system with a here is a link and the operating system acts on it with the default application.

I know Windows 20 has some weirdness about default browsers, as I have mine set to Firefox, but periodically Windows 10 ignores than for it's own apps and just uses edge regardless of my choices. It is a bit like a virus really.

Mozilla have the following instructions for Firefox users. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/07/29/firefox-for-windows-10-how-to-restore-or-choose-firefox-as-your-default-browser/

The steps will be similar in Chrome.

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My guess is that chrome is not fully setup as your browser. All Thunderbird does with links, unless you have modified the default handlers is pass the link to the operating system with a here is a link and the operating system acts on it with the default application.

I know Windows 20 has some weirdness about default browsers, as I have mine set to Firefox, but periodically Windows 10 ignores than for it's own apps and just uses edge regardless of my choices. It is a bit like a virus really.

Mozilla have the following instructions for Firefox users. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/07/29/firefox-for-windows-10-how-to-restore-or-choose-firefox-as-your-default-browser/

The steps will be similar in Chrome.