How to make Chrome your default Windows 10 browser

If you’re yet to get Windows 10 and have that little Windows icon in your notification bar, you can still sign up and reserve your free upgrade today.

Pocket-lint has been receiving plenty of reports by readers who are still waiting, including those who were on the Windows Insider programme – thought to be prioritised as the “first wave”. Windows 10 users have to specifically set a default app for different applications such as mail, calendar, and web browsers.

Although Microsoft has said it wants to preserve the “quality of the upgrade experience”, it said in an update that it was pushing to make Windows 10 available to all those that reserved it within the next few days.

Mozilla, developer of Internet browser Firefox, CEO Chris Beard sent an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella via the official Mozilla blog saying, “I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10”.

“We have seen unprecedented demand for Windows 10, with reviews and customer feedback overwhelmingly positive around the globe”, Microsoft wrote.

“It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows”, Beard said. Users that have changed their default browser to any other one will have to go into the settings of their Windows 10 PCs to change back to another browser.

Yesterday we reported that according to unconfirmed numbers, it was suggested that Windows 10 had been installed on at least 10 million devices since it was released. Fans have been keen to take advantage of that offer, and 14 million of them upgraded their machines on day one.

The desktop PC version of Windows 10 has been out since yesterday, but the mobile variation of Microsoft’s latest OS is still in the making.

In previous versions of Windows, browsers would prompt you to make them the default app for Web browsing.