Default, Windows 10 uses Microsoft Edge as its browser. It is the browser that Microsoft expects users to use in the operating system, but in most cases a different one is installed. Despite this, it is still shown in many cases that Edge is the default browser in the operating system.
This means that for certain actions, when the browser has to be opened, Edge will open. We can change this at any time so that Windows 10 opens the browser that we really use when any of these occasions occur. You just have to change which is the default browser in the operating system.
In this respect, there are two options we can turn to on our computer. So we can use another browser in Windows 10 in a simple way. The options are simple and familiar to most users who have a computer with the operating system. But if you are taking your first steps, surely you are interested in knowing them.
Download a new browser in Windows 10
The first thing we can do is ddownload a new browser to use on your computer. The selection of browsers on the market is wide, so it is not something that is going to be complicated for us. We can choose between well-known options such as Google Chrome or Firefox, which have a great presence in the market. But the reality is that there are many more browsers available on the market, as the safest options.
Therefore, in this case you only have to download one of these browsers on Windows 10 and use it as the default browser. When we install a new browser, we are usually asked if we want it to be the default browser. As it is what we want, we will only have to give it to accept and our preference will be saved in this case.
We are allowed to install all the browsers we want. If you have several installed on your Windows 10 computer, you will have to decide which you want to be the browser that will be used by default on the computer. Although this is not a problem, you just have to select it in the browser itself, which asks if you want it to be the one used by default.
From settings
If we already have an additional browser to Microsoft Edge installed on the computer, but we have not established that we want it to be the one used by default, we have a second option. In this case we will have to make use of Windows 10 settings, which allows us to establish at any time what we want to be the browser that is used by default on our computer. It is another very simple option to use.
If you want, we can search directly for the option using the search engine on the computer. In this search box we enter Default applications and enter the option called Default Apps Settings, that will appear on this list. After a couple of seconds this section will be shown on the screen. There is a list with the default applications in categories, in this case we have to search for the browser in that list.
We will see that Microsoft Edge is the default browser in Windows 10. If we click on the Web Browser option, the browsers that we have installed on the computer will then be displayed. We are going to be asked then choose which browser we want to use therefore on the computer, as the default browser. We will only have to choose the browser in question in said list. The one you want to use in your particular case.
Thus, we have established the default browser that we want use in Windows 10. From now on that will be the browser that will be used on the computer at all times. If at a certain point we change our mind, we can follow the same steps to change everything again. An easy way to change this default browser on your computer.