I actually found a use for Outlook's scummy default behaviour to open links in Edge and not the default browser.

On my company laptop I mainly use Librewolf because it allows installing plug-ins despite group policy. I only use Edge for Azure DevOps and company portals because MS SSO doesn't work with Librewolf for some reason.

Because Outlook disregards the OS settings and uses Edge by default, MS software forms a sort of bubble, and I can freely set Librewolf as my default browser.

that might just be the chilliest rant I've read in my life

@kobenz it's about malice and oppression invalidating each other. A capitalist fairytale.

@lorentz and now you've ruined it 🤣

So what will happen if you uninstall edge?

Also, links from outlook opening in edge makes me want to wear an ffp2 mask and latex gloves in fear of getting infected by cyber-AIDS

@Chewbanacas It's company policy, I could not care less if it leads to vulns, but I think Chredge is pretty much as virus resistant as browsers get. It shares an engine with 76% of the browser market after all.

You can only uninstall edge by removing it as a Windows component. I won't try because I have work to do, but Microsoft says pretty explicitly that if you remove stock Windows components shit will break.

That being said, if they have a crumb of common sense, they fall back to the system default browser. They have a toggle for that anyway, only the default behaviour is to force Edge.

Librewolf sounds interesting. I will have to check it out.

I keep Edge around for edge cases...

It does it also with non-MS apps - i.e. when I put a link to PDF into a PowerPoint presentation and then click on it, the MS Office opens Acrobat instead of the default PDF viewer.