This app has long been available to users as a free tool that allowed them to redirect these URIs.
Users can no longer set anything but Microsoft Edge as the protocol handler for the microsoft-edge:// protocol.
While Windows has not blocked third-parties from registering protocol handlers, it declines to show them in the UI.
It also disregards the setting if users change the default in the system registry.
No third-party apps are allowed to handle the protocol.
Something changed between Windows 11 builds 22483 and 22494 (both Windows Insider Preview builds.)
The build changelog makes a few mentions of changes to the protocol and file associations/default apps system.
Microsoft doesnt even bother throwing up the An app default was reset glitch notice.
It just silently ignores the UserChoice registry keys for the protocol in the registry and opens Microsoft Edge instead.
Windows still uses the default protocol associations to detect and present possible Edge beta or preview builds.
Ideally, the company should cease its use of all microsoft-edge:// links.
Its user-hostile and an anti-competitive practice that regulators just havent caught up with yet, Aleksandersen said.
For users, the best action is to complain to their local antitrust regulator or switch to Linux.
Your web web client is probably the most important?
?if not the only?
?app you regularly use.
Microsoft has made it clear that its priorities for Windows dont align with its users, he concluded.
source: www.techworm.net
