As I’ll show you, it only takes a few minutes. Whatever the reason, if Edge is your default browser in Windows 10 or 11, it’s easy to switch to the browser of your choice. When there’s a major Windows 10 or Windows 11 upgrade, the upgrade recommends switching to Edge, and you might have inadvertently made the switch. Note that even if you’ve previously set up another browser to be your default, it might have been changed since then. (The new Edge is the only one that’s ever been offered in Windows 11.) But you might still prefer to use Chrome, Firefox, or one of the many other browsers out there.

The new Edge is a much better browser, and there are compelling reasons to use it. The original version of Edge was underpowered, had difficult-to-use features, and offered very few extensions compared to Chrome and Firefox.īut in January 2020, Microsoft launched a new version of Edge that’s based on the same technologies that drive Chrome. Even though the company made Edge the default browser in Windows 10, users left in droves, most of them flocking to Google Chrome - and with good reason.

Microsoft has been struggling to get people to use its Edge browser for years.