What do you mean by default browser

By clicking sign up, you agree to receive emails from Techopedia and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Default browser refers to the browser that is associated with Web documents or Web links. It is also the browser that comes pre-installed with the operating system, e.

The default browser is the application that is automatically launched when a user clicks on a Web document or when an application opens a Web link, such as when going to its home page. There are several browsers available for users to choose from, each of which can be installed side by side with other browsers. However, only one browser can be associated with a Web document. By: Justin Stoltzfus Contributor, Reviewer.

By: Satish Balakrishnan. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day. Natural Language Processing. There are many other browsers which have different features and different Pros and Cons. It's a good experience to try a different web browser ; you might find one that you enjoy using more than your current browser. Change your JavaScript settings Read more. Configure your cookie settings for the best privacy Read more. Get more features and better security.

Read more. We've got a detailed guide to help you solve login problems Read more. Why are cookies useful? Do you need them? Thank you for all the help you give us. On above it was interesting BUT I have a major problem.

I have win 98 se and had Firefox and of course ie. I removed Firefox from the computor. Now on certain files up comes the box telling me it cannot be opened even sometimes I am in IE because it cannot locate Firefox. It says windows cannot find Firefox. Do I have to reinstall Firefox or can I get rid of this problem another way? Thank you. Personally I do not want to have any browser set as a default. I much prefer to right click, use copy link location and then open it in whichever browser I need at that time.

Now I cannot find any way to remove the error. Chalk another bad mark for MS! This may or may not be relevant, but please bare with me. It used to be difficult to use another browser and some microsoft pages typically did not work in anything but IE. If someone wants to open different pages with different browser,actually there is another easy way to do that.

There is a feature in this browser that you can assign a website open with certain rendering engine. There is another tri-core browser called lunascape, but this one is not that stable as Avant from my experience. Leo, You ask if you are missing something. Well, I use Chrome for its search capability, Firefox for the best tabbing and printing, Opera for its ability to load individual frames and IE9 to copy tables into MS Office products.

Each of these tasks is messed up by the other browsers. It would really be useful to right-click a link in any browser and get a choice of browsers to load the link. I keep dreaming that one day someone will design a Windows utility that will allow this from any browser…. Comments violating those rules will be removed.

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