Optional update finally adds one-click default app selection to Windows 11
The latest set of optional cumulative updates for Windows 11 contains an unlisted addition that users have been clamoring for since the OSes release: A one-click default browser change. The update follows discovery of the addition in testing builds released in December,2021, and indicates Microsoft has gone back on its idea that granular control is better. Microsoft doesn’t have the most user-friendly history when it comes to its default application policies. Recent changes in Windows 11 made it impossible to open certain web address prefixes in any non-Edge browser, and another quick glance into Microsoft’s past will remind anyone that default browser selection was one of the core components of the antitrust lawsuits it faced. Prior to this update, Windows 11 default applications required users to change every single protocol an app might use, which for browsers includes HTM, HTML, HTTP and HTPPS at the least.
