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I've created other browser-specific URL shortcuts for various purposes.
My current environment requires IE remain the default browser (yup) but some sites don't work with IE, so for those I create shortcuts that call the full path to Chrome.exe and then call the desired URL. The result being that activating that shortcut opens Google Chrome and navigates to the desired web page.
Microsoft Edge stores itself in an odd "app" location and cannot be called in the same way.
So, how does one create a shortcut for a specific URL that opens this URL in Microsoft Edge when some other browser is set as default?
Yea, I found that in a comment while re-reading a question I'd found while trying to find the question in the first place. I'll mark yours as the answer once it lets me in 10 minutes. – music2myear – 2018-10-22T21:39:04.603
https://superuser.com/questions/950435/where-is-microsoft-edge-located-in-windows-10-how-do-i-launch-it/950457#comment1305243_950457 – music2myear – 2018-10-22T21:39:10.127
1FWIW, it also seems like you can use the
microsoft-edge:
protocol in an anchor tag in a browser. Clicking<a href="microsoft-edge:https://yoursite.com">go</a>
in IE will open that page in Edge, without any confirmation (at least on my system). In Chrome, you have to confirm that you want to open Edge before it'll launch. – jdunning – 2019-05-10T22:11:59.393