Use Cortana to search for “choose a default browser” and tap on the System settings option. Click on the icon under Web browser and select the browser that you want Cortana to open your searches in. Close the settings window to save your new selection.

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By default, Cortana wants to serve each of your searches using Microsoft’s own search engine, Bing. … If you’re using Edge, Cortana will default to Bing. If you’re using Firefox, it’ll default to Google.

To Turn off Cortana completely on Windows 10 Pro press the “Start” button and search for and open “Edit group policy“. Next, go to “Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search” and find and open “Allow Cortana“. Click “Disabled“, and press “OK“.

How to disable Cortana in Windows 10 Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Esc. In Task Manager, click the Startup column. Select Cortana. Click Disable. Then, open the Start menu. Find Cortana under All Apps. Right-click on Cortana. Select More.

Here’s how to switch the browser, and set up the Chrome plugin, if needed. Type Settings into the Cortana search bar and hit Enter. Select System. Choose Default apps. Navigate to Web browser, click Microsoft Edge and change it to Firefox or Chrome. Download and install the Chrometana extension.

In order to make Cortana use Google, you need an add-on or extension to redirect the search. For Chrome, you need an extension called Chrometana. … With Chrome set as your default web browser, and this extension installed in Chrome, Cortana will send searches to it, and all searches will . . . Read more

You just have to enable the ‘Windows desktop search redirection’ flag on Chrome web browser. Type about://flags on the address bar of your browser and go to ‘Windows desktop search redirection preference’. Enable the feature and your Windows desktop searches will be redirected to the default search engine.

Open Cortana by clicking its icon on taskbar (or other ways). Type Choose a default browser into the search box. Hit Enter or click on the result. Click on the current default browser under Web browser option in the Default apps panel.