Microsoft seems to be eliminating Windows 11 modifications that made it more durable to modify default browsers, in accordance with a report from The Verge‘s Tom Warren. A brand new Insider construct now enables you to change from Edge to Chrome, Firefox or different browsers with a single button, moderately than laboriously altering the default for every kind of hyperlink.

The change solely applies to inside hyperlinks loaded exterior a browser. Currently, once you click on on such a hyperlink, it opens up a dialog field that offers you the choice of switching browsers, however your choice is not retained until you tick the “always use this app” field. What’s worse, you must set the default for a number of forms of internet information, together with HTM, HTML, HTTP and HTTPS. Each time, a complicated nag field pops up asking you to reconfirm your choice.

In the newest construct, you’ll be able to set your default browser with a single button, as EarTrumpet app developer Rafael Rivera observed. “In the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22509 released to the Dev Channel on Wednesday, we streamlined the ability for a Windows Insider to set the ‘default browser’ to apps that register for HTTP:, HTTPS:, .HTM, and .HTML,” Microsoft VP Aaron Woodman instructed The Verge. 

Shortly after Windows 11 got here out, Microsoft said it made the modifications to offer customers extra granular management. That prompted complaints from rival browser makers together with Brave, Opera, Firefox and Chrome. “We condemn this Windows 11 approach, because the choice of a default browser has many implications for individuals and their privacy. Users should be free to choose,” a Brave spokesperson instructed The Verge. 

Microsoft has run into pretty critical antitrust points with its browsers prior to now, having been hit by the EU with a $730 million nice in 2013 for browser selection non-compliance. The EU additionally fined the corporate $1.35 billion in 2008 over an analogous situation. The new function is now in testing, however it’s not clear when it will likely be launched broadly.