With Windows 11, Microsoft made it a bit hard to change the default browser. Microsoft Edge is the default browser for everything related to the web on Windows 11 out of the box. However, that may not be so convenient for many, as millions are used to using Google Chrome as their default browser. Not just Chrome, you might be privacy-centric and might be using DuckDuckGo or Brave. Having the liberty to choose a default browser so that the links open in your preferred browser should be quite a simple setting, for that matter.

how to change default browser in outlook 365

However, users are facing difficulty in changing the default browser in Outlook 365. Notably, several user reports claim that they aren’t able to open email and web links in their default browser, which is either Chrome or Firefox. Thankfully, this guide gives you the steps that you need to change default browser in Outlook 365. With that said, let’s jump right in.

Change default browser in Windows

If you have downloaded Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, then you might have set it as your default web browser. However, you also need to set Chrome or any other browser as the default for the Outlook app. Here’s how you can do it:

  1. Press the Win+I keys to open the Settings menu. You can also right-click on the Start menu bar and choose Settings from the list of options that appear.
  2. Click on Apps from the left pane.
  3. Select the Default Apps option from the right side.
  4. In the search bar, type Google Chrome or your preferred browser and click on it.Windows default apps
  5. In the MAILTO option, make sure to choose the browser that you want to use. In our case, Google Chrome as the default browser.Outlook Mail default
  6. Now, check if this fixes the issue.

Change default browser in Outlook 365

Even if changing the default web browser by following the above steps doesn’t fix your issue, then you need to tweak the settings of the MS Outlook 365 app itself. Here’s how you can do it:

  1. Launch Microsoft Outlook 365.
  2. Navigate to File > Options.
  3. Choose Advanced.
  4. Scroll down to locate Link Handling, and change the Open hyperlinks from Outlook in: from Microsoft Edge to Google Chrome.MS Outlook 365 link handling
  5. Click OK to save the changes.

Redirect your links to your favorite browser

This simple trick does the job, and now all of your emails and links will open in your preferred browser when you are using MS Outlook 365. If you want to unsend an email in Outlook, then we have a dedicated guide with the steps that will help you achieve that. Let us know in the comments below if you were able to change the default browser in Outlook 365 or not.

FAQs about Outlook 365

To change the default view in Outlook 365, follow the steps below:

  1. Launch Outlook 365.
  2. Select the View tab.
  3. In the Current View section, choose Reset View.
  4. Confirm by selecting Yes in the prompt that appears.

  1. Open Outlook.
  2. Click on File in the top menu bar.
  3. Choose Option.
  4. Select Account Settings.
  5. Choose the account that you want to remove and click Remove.
  6. You will see a warning that all the offline cached files associated with that account will also be removed from your PC. Click OK.
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