Under Options for your browser, select “Make Firefox (or Chrome, etc.) my default browser” or.

Reset your default browser back to the one you prefer:.

Restart Firefox (or your preferred default browser).

Click on the link in your email to make sure it opens a tab in Edge.

Select Microsoft Edge as your default browser.

Go to Default Programs in Windows Settings or Control Panel.

Exit from Firefox or your default browser ( it turns out this is not required).

Not encouraging.īut there was a common thread, both in the old Microsoft Fix-It and in some of the suggestions from what Google found for me: Resetting the default browser to the Microsoft product (previously Internet Explorer, now Microsoft Edge in Windows 10). The suggested fixes I got through Google either didn’t work or seemed unnecessarily tedious and complicated. The next step was to google the problem for Windows 10. Of course, I went immediately to my trusty Fix-It script only to pop up a message that it would not work with Windows 10. When this happened in the past, there was a quick and easy Microsoft Fix-It script that would resolve my problem. There are reports of the same thing happening in Chrome and Internet Explorer, as well as with links in the Windows 10 Mail app. Periodically, after an update of some kind or just seemingly out of the blue, clicking on a link in an email no longer opens that link in my default browser, Firefox. I have used Microsoft Outlook as my email client for years and I’m currently using Outlook 2019 (after a year with the very buggy Outlook 2016).

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