How to Make Your Browser Default

by Scottshak · Published January 28, 2019 · Updated January 28, 2019

So you are clicking on a link and it is opening in a browser that’s not your favourite? Don’t worry! Here’s a simple trick on how to make your browser default so that next time you click on any link, it will open the URL in your default browser.

We will take the example of Google Chrome in this one, since it is a very popular browser and everybody wishes to make it their default browser.

However, if you wish to make any installed browser of your choice as your default browser, you can follow these simple steps too.

How to Make Your Browser Default

Step 1: Click on Search box in your Windows and type Settings. Then Press Enter.

Step 2: In the next dialog box click on Apps:

Step 3: In the next screen click on Default Apps.

NOTE: To avoid steps 1 to 3, you can simply have typed “default app settings” in the Search bar and clicked on the first option as shown:

It would open Default Apps Section in Settings directly.

Okay, moving on.

Step 4: Scroll down to the Web browser section and click on the default browser that is being shown.

Step 5: Then in the small dialog box that opens, select the browser of your preference. If you want to make Google Chrome your Default Browser, click on Google Chrome.

Once you have selected it, it will begin to show in the Default Apps section as shown in the image.

That’s it!

Another Alternative

What many web browsers provide is an option to make their browser default. While you might have noticed that whenever you install a new browser, or when you open it for the first time, it asks you whether you wish to choose it as default. If you have done that well and good, but if you haven’t you can still do so by following the following steps:

I will explain how it is done for Google Chrome.

Step 1: Open Google Chrome.
Step 2: Click on the three dots at the right hand side corner of the browser. Then click on Settings.

Step 3: Look for the Default Browser section in the next page. Click on Make Default button option next to it.

Once you have clicked on it, Default App Settings of your system might open up and then you have to once again select the browser of your choice from the list of available browsers.

Meaning from here: