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Re:Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens li... by jeltz on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:34AM (#36492494)
That is very annoying. On s related note I personally hate how I need to enter the settings of every app on my phone to tell them not to use the embedded browser? Why would I ever want to use something which is not my default browser? The only scenario I csn see is offering to open in private browsing but still in my browser or something like tor. Just some web view makes no sense.

And this is similar. There is no non-malicious use case for this setting that I can see.

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Re:Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens li... by creshal on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:55AM (#36492814)
On Android at least, browsers can also provide the "embedded" overlay, and Fennec, Vivaldi, etc. all do, so it's not really necessary to mess with app settings, changing the system default browser is enough.

On iOS, it's mandatory, because Apple says so.

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