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Status: Fixed
Owner:
grt@chromium.org
Closed: Dec 13
Cc:
pastarmovj@chromium.org
nicolaso@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Document DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled caveats for Windows 10

Reported by niroshan...@kp.org, Sep 19 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Enable "DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled" policy using GPO or using Intune.
2. Run GpUpdate and/or Sync to apply Chrome policy to your device.
3. Open Chrome and run chrome://policy to validate that "DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled" is enabled (true).
4. Open Default Apps in Windows 10 and scroll down to "Web Browser section.

What is the expected behavior?
Google Chrome should be set as "Default" Web Browser in Default Apps.

What went wrong?
Chrome is not set as Default browser and instead, MS Edge stays as the default browser.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
ChooseBrowserPrompt.PNG
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Comment 1 by niroshan...@kp.org, Sep 19 

You can close this issue since Windows 10 devices must have default associations configuration file setup to change default browser setting. https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7009292?hl=en

I recommend updating https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled documentation to reflect a limitation of this policy on Windows 10 devices.

Comment 2 by bartfab@chromium.org, Sep 21

Labels: Enterprise-Triaged
Owner: pastarmovj@chromium.org
Summary: Document DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled caveats for Windows 10 (was: DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled when enabled is not setting Chrome as default web browser)

Comment 3 by bartfab@chromium.org, Sep 21

Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 4 by nicolaso@chromium.org, Oct 31

Labels: Hotlist-Enterprise-Fixit

Comment 5 by pastarmovj@chromium.org, Nov 22 

The documentation in the policy description has been fixed. We could as a further polish also change the "Supported on" label in the GPO Editor to say "Supported on Windows 7" only instead of "Supported on Windows 7 and newer" as is currently the case for all policies.

Comment 6 by nicolaso@chromium.org, Dec 10

Cc: nicolaso@chromium.org

Comment 7 by grt@chromium.org, Dec 13

Cc: pastarmovj@chromium.org
Owner: grt@chromium.org
Status: Fixed (was: Assigned)
The documentation bug was fixed in r596188 and is live at https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled.

The improvement mentioned in comment 5 is being tracked in issue 900206.
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