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Edge is stealing hyperlinks from Thunderbird emails, opening them in Edge, instead of the default Firefox

lemorrison1
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Edge is stealing hyperlinks from Thunderbird emails, opening them in Edge, instead of the default Firefox. Many are having this problem; Microsoft did this on purpose. Fix?

Edge is stealing hyperlinks from Thunderbird emails, opening them in Edge, instead of the default Firefox. Many are having this problem; Microsoft did this on purpose. Fix?

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Have you checked the Default Apps on Windows to see what it has set for HTML links? That may be showing Edge.

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david
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Have you checked the Default Apps on Windows to see what it has set for HTML links? That may be showing Edge.

lemorrison1
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Wow, took hours to find where Microsoft hides the default apps settings in my version of Windows 11, but you were right. M'soft had hijacked all the setting to Edge; changed back and now okay, thanks.