Windows 10. Making Firefox default browser.

patman99

Interesting one this. Upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Everything works (quite amazed at this), but when I try to make FF default browser, Windows opens a settings screen and on this is a simple 'set your default browser' section.

Trouble is, the drop-down list only shows Internet Explorer and Opera.
It dosn't show Firefox even though it has been on the computer from day 1.

Is there any way to cure this without having to re-install Firefox?.

debitcardmayhem

Try from firefox and say set firefox as default and then it migh open up the right section , I am on linux at the mo but I will check later.

patman99

When FF opens-up, it asks if you want to make it the default browser. I click on the 'yes' button and it opens the appropriate settings screen but FF is not showing in the drop-down list for browsers.

I have a feeling that Windows 10 failed to pick it up when upgrading from Windows 8.1. I have no wish to re-install FF unless absolutley neccessary.

debitcardmayhem

Re-installing won't(shouldn't) cause any problems , but just in case Windows 10 calls me a liar, it would be prudent to copy your C:\Users\your-username\AppData\Mozilla first so you don't lose owt.

But first read this https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/07/29/firefox-for-windows-10-how-to-restore-or-choose-firefox-as-your-default-browser/ see if that makes a difference, mine is already set as FF so I can't comment

J_B

Firstly, stop using that word 'upgrade' when you mean 'change'

On the only W10 set up I've done, I installed G Chrome as the default browser and it worked fine.
The only issue I had was that after removing (?) Cortina, or whatever it's called, I then had a 'search' box on the taskbar. When I used this to connect to t'internet, it opened Chrome but insisted on using Bing as it's search page.
I quick google suggested that Chrome needed an add-on (to 'force' it to use Google instead of Bing) which I installed, but still it went to Bing.
As it wasn't for me, I left it be, but was bemused that it didn't do what I wanted.

wongataa

J_B wrote: »

Firstly, stop using that word 'upgrade' when you mean 'change'

On the only W10 set up I've done, I installed G Chrome as the default browser and it worked fine.
The only issue I had was that after removing (?) Cortina, or whatever it's called, I then had a 'search' box on the taskbar. When I used this to connect to t'internet, it opened Chrome but insisted on using Bing as it's search page.
I quick google suggested that Chrome needed an add-on (to 'force' it to use Google instead of Bing) which I installed, but still it went to Bing.
As it wasn't for me, I left it be, but was bemused that it didn't do what I wanted.

That search box will always use Bing. If you don't want to use Bing open your browser and go to your search engine of choice and do the search. This behaviour happens no matter what browser you use.

giraffe69

That search box will always use Bing. If you don't want to use Bing open your browser and go to your search engine of choice and do the search. This behaviour happens no matter what browser you use.

No it doesn't if you have downloaded the appropriate extension for Chrome which is called Bing2Google

J_B

giraffe69 wrote: »

No it doesn't if you have downloaded the appropriate extension for Chrome which is called Bing2Google

Yup, that's the extension I d/l, but it still used Bing

RumRat

Since Firefox 40 (now on 42.0) it has redirected both the search and Cortana to whatever your default search engine is in Firefox.

J_B

RumRat wrote: »

Since Firefox 40 (now on 42.0) it has redirected both the search and Cortana to whatever your default search engine is in Firefox.

Yes, but we were talking about Chrome not FF

marleyboy

OP is talking about Firefox NOT Chrome.