Chrome missing from Choose a default web browser on Windows 10

[gabriel_eliot]

Chrome missing from Choose a default web browser on Windows 10

Heya.

Chrome is not able to be made the default web browser in Windows 10.

I go to the start menu, type settings, go to Web browser: + Choose Default

However, the list only includes Microsoft Edge. See here:

When I click a URL, it brings up this menu:

Again, Chrome is missing and Internet Explorer appears twice.

I just uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome, but the problem remains.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much.

 

[gabriel_eliot]

I found the answer on the Chrome forums.

I still can't make Chrome appear on either default program menu specified in my original post, however, by going to the old fashioned control panel and navigating to Default program, Chrome appears, along with all other applications.

Navigating to Google Chrome & clicking "Set This Program as default" did the trick.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Can you not set it as the default from within Chrome?

 

[quikah]

Can you not set it as the default from within Chrome?

No MS prevents apps from setting defaults to stop app hijacks (or so they can spy on you with MS apps if you are a tinfoil hat wearer).

Op that is pretty weird. I just installed chrome now and it showed up in the new menu. Do you have any 3rd party start menu or registry hacks installed (all those top spying things)?

 

[gabriel_eliot]

Can you not set it as the default from within Chrome?

No. Doing that within Chrome only brings up this menu with Chrome absent:

No MS prevents apps from setting defaults to stop app hijacks (or so they can spy on you with MS apps if you are a tinfoil hat wearer).

Op that is pretty weird. I just installed chrome now and it showed up in the new menu. Do you have any 3rd party start menu or registry hacks installed (all those top spying things)?

Not that I am aware of. Everything worked fine before, I was able to select Chrome from the default app menu until an automatic Windows 10 update maybe 1-2 months ago.

Like I said and detailed in the second post of this thread, I've found a solution involving setting the default through the old fashioned control panel. But you're right. It's still weird that Chrome doesn't appear in those other default Web Browser lists.

 

[quikah]

Like I said and detailed in the second post of this thread, I've found a solution involving setting the default through the old fashioned control panel. But you're right. It's still weird that Chrome doesn't appear in those other default Web Browser lists.

This is more just thinking out loud since you already solved this...

Have you done a restart of windows lately rather than shutdown? The way Windows 10 is setup by default is to do a hibernate sort of shutdown rather than a normal shutdown. This can cause it to occasionally get into a funky state IME. Doing a restart usually fixes any weird behavior I am seeing with Windows.

does it happen on a different user account on your computer? Might be a corrupted user profile.

 

[zokudu]

I would try reinstalling Chrome. Perhaps something didn't work properly during install.

 

[TheRyuu]

You may have installed Chrome per user instead of system wide[1]. I don't know if that would affect that menu.

[1] http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?system=true&standalone=1