rcmaehl/msedgeredirect

MSEdgeRedirect is a small Windows utility that intercepts links Windows tries to open in Microsoft Edge and sends them to your default browser instead. On Windows 10 and 11, certain system features, such as the News widget, weather previews in the taskbar, and search results from the Start menu, are wired to open in Edge regardless of what browser you have set as your default. This tool sits in between and reroutes those links so they open in your chosen browser. The tool works by watching the command-line arguments that Edge processes receive and passing them along to your default browser instead. It does not hook into a fixed Edge shortcut like older approaches did, which means it should keep working even when Microsoft updates Edge. A second mode called Image File Execution Options is also available and works similarly to how an older tool called EdgeDeflector operated. Installation is straightforward. You can download the executable directly from the GitHub releases page, or install it through three common Windows package managers: Chocolatey, Scoop, and Winget. Once installed, there is no extra setup walkthrough. The README describes it as a set-and-forget tool. It runs in the background quietly. A practical bonus is search engine choice. As of version 0.5, you can tell the tool to rewrite Bing search URLs into searches on one of eight different search engines, or enter your own. So a Bing search triggered by the Windows search bar can land in Google or another engine of your choosing. The tool is written in AutoIt, a scripting language used for Windows automation, and is released under the LGPL-3.0 license. The README notes it is still in beta, and system requirements are minimal: any Windows 10 machine with at least 40 MB of free RAM will run it.