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Cortana no longer uses Firefox when searching the web from Windows 10 start menu

ElliotRodger
ElliotRodger

Around April, Microsoft patched Cortana to no longer direct websearches to third party browsers. Now instead it directs to Edge and exclusively Bing.

I was wondering if there is a plan for a workaround for this search feature to be reenabled for Firefox or if all hope is lost.

Around April, Microsoft patched Cortana to no longer direct websearches to third party browsers. Now instead it directs to Edge and exclusively Bing. I was wondering if there is a plan for a workaround for this search feature to be reenabled for Firefox or if all hope is lost.

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hi, unfortunately microsoft chose to lock out third-party browsers/search-engines from that functionality. there is no easy workaround for this that could be implemented by firefox :-/ http://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/29/microsoft-blocks-search-engines-windows-10/

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philipp
philipp
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hi, unfortunately microsoft chose to lock out third-party browsers/search-engines from that functionality. there is no easy workaround for this that could be implemented by firefox :-/ http://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/29/microsoft-blocks-search-engines-windows-10/

ElliotRodger
ElliotRodger Question owner

Welp, there goes another Windows 10 feature that I can no longer use. What a wonderful operating system!

Thank you for the quick reply!