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		stiGGG on Oct 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Mic... No, App developers are able to find out if Edge (or Chrome or Firefox) is installed on your device to give you an option to open links inside it, but most apps don't do that and you still can not change the default browser.

janpio on Oct 5, 2017 [–]

Shame.

Then maybe Microsoft could create a share extension that uses this new Windows feature to "collect" URLs from an iPhone?

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