How to change your default browser in Windows

This article explains how to change your default Web browser to Firefox on Windows 10 or Windows 11. For other operating systems, run into Make Firefox your default browser.

Brand Firefox your default browser in Firefox Settings

  1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the menu push Fx57Menu and select . Click the menu button Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. In the panel, y'all will find the default browser setting in the Startup department at the superlative of the page.
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  3. Click the Brand Default… push.
    Firefox will try to do everything in the background to change your Windows configuration.

    Note: If Firefox is already your default browser, the Brand Default… button will be missing and it will say that Firefox is currently your default browser.

  4. Firefox will now evidence that it is your default browser.
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If Firefox was non able to change your default browser, information technology will open the Windows Settings app, with the Default apps panel already open.

Manually change your default browser to Firefox in Windows Settings (Windows 10)

  1. Open up the Default apps console in Windows Settings, if information technology isn't already open. (In the Windows Start menu, click the Settings icon, click and click .)
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  2. In the Web browser section of the Default apps panel, click on the browser that is currently listed.
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  3. In the Choose an app panel, click on Firefox to set it as the default browser.
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  4. In the Spider web browser department, you will encounter that Windows 10 has Firefox set as the default browser.
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Manually change your default browser to Firefox in Windows Settings (Windows xi)

To make Firefox your default Web browser on Windows eleven, you will demand to change the default application for a number of file types and protocols:

  1. Open the Default apps panel in Windows Settings (if it isn't already open):
    1. Click in the Windows taskbar.
    2. Click from the options to the left.
    3. Click .
  2. Detect Firefox in the list that appears and click on it.
    • A list of file types will be shown under Set default file types or link types.
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  3. Click on a file type (for example, .htm) to alter the default program that opens and set information technology to Firefox.
  4. Do the same for each of the other file types you want to open in Firefox.

Note: Most common file types and protocols opened with the default browser include .htm, .xhtm, .html, .shtml, .webp, .pdf, MAILTO, HTTP and HTTPS.

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AliceWyman, philipp, Michele Rodaro, ideato, Ashickur Rahman, Shannon Kularathna, Joni, Mark Schmidt, Marcelo Ghelman, JoshNiesler, YD, Rashid, Angela Lazar, Fabi, Julie

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