Microsoft Edge trying to install when I open games

[AMS]

So why the hell is steam trying to instal Edge every time I run a game?

[TJ_4874]

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So why the hell is steam trying to instal Edge every time I run a game?

what?

this will take up a small piece of my brain until you get an answer to this

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Select a browser other than Edge in windows and make it your default browser then add that browser to Steam>settings web browser

[PocketYoda]

Do you have another web browser.. If not it will probably default to edge.. Maybe there is an error with steam not detecting your default web browser.

[Machine Gunn Eddie]

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So why the hell is steam trying to instal Edge every time I run a game?

is this shortcut issue?

if yes, open with your urls "browser" (home icon)

[RiO]

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So why the hell is steam trying to instal Edge every time I run a game?

Four possible solutions to try:

1. Actually Install MS Edge. (But: if you got rid of it - then you probably have your reasons for that, so let's not pick this option.)
   
2. Use the 'Default apps' settings window to select your default browser as Firefox; Chrome; or whatever you have installed. Could be that something wasn't migrated to your selected browser of choice and is still assigned to Edge.
   
3. Disable Steam Overlay, which should take out any web-browser related logic running at startup as well.
   
4. Disable 'Allow desktop Web browsers to automatically log into Steam sites'.

Probably it's a pairing of the second and fourth ones; where Steam thinks it needs to do something to have you auto signed-in to Edge or something...

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Note here for you lads.

Steam runs its background servers off of google, edge is a modified version of chrome which in a way the reason it opens edge is because steam is trying to get the required directX or other files needed to play a game because Steam by default does not have them. For example if you try to player older PC games (IE Quake 2) Steam will open edge only briefly to get the XNA framework, which basically is just the old Microsoft game studio framework for it, which it may also do for other Redistributable programs.

The reason its opening edge is because with how microsoft uses Edge now instead of direct updates, Steam goes the easy route of directly obtaining the required redistributable's for your game then going the long route of using the update system.

Normally it never directly needs to open edge as often times edge already runs in the background regardless of any other browser you have as basically the dumb thing is needed for updates, feeds and other stuff (including if your going to use a microsoft account to sign in with to)

The only time as far as I know, that Steam may open your browser is as you may of pointed out, since you dont have edge, Steam cant get the needed directx (or any other files) that microsoft has which has basically remade their windows so you can only get them via Edge.

Idk why they did this but I cant blame Steam as this is literally a situation where the program is just trying to get your directx files but now has to do it via edge :\