Google's onboarding process for Chrome tries out a new approach of both offering to be your default browser and being pinned to your taskbar.

Chrome Canary reveals a redesigned first-run screen that asks users to set Chrome as the default browser and pin it to the Windows taskbar.

Depending on the settings of your Android phone or tablet, you might not have a default web browser. As a result, you'll be presented with a series of browser options every time you tap a link. That ...

You can change the default browser on Mac in System Preferences or your browser's settings page. Macs set Safari as the default browser, but you can change it to any ...

In iOS 14, Apple finally added the ability to choose your default browser and email client. That means when you click a link in an app, it won’t lead you to Safari when you'd rather go to Chrome—or ...

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Not everybody wants to use Safari, the Mac's default web browser, but switching completely to another one looks difficult — until you know how. Using a browser that isn't set to your default on macOS ...

Associate Editor Nate Ralph is an aspiring wordsmith, covering mobile software and hardware for CNET Reviews. His hobbies include dismantling gadgets, waxing poetic about obscure ASCII games, and ...

Microsoft introduced a new integrated browser with the launch of Windows 10: Microsoft Edge. It’s billed to be lightweight and fast, but many PC owners may not like having an integrated browser forced ...

Firefox 75 comes with a new telemetry agent that sends information about your operating system and your default browser to Firefox every day. This guide will walk you through disabling this "feature" ...

Windows is generally flexible about tweaks to its system—and advanced users have long taken advantage of registry tweaks to make the OS behave. But recently, Microsoft has quietly barred access to one ...