new messenger opens links in EDGE instead of default browser.

that doesnt work, cuz when you open the previous version, a small window pops up telling you to update. wont disappear until you update, plus thats a dead link you posted

Thank you Microsoft, i just uninstalled the now very annoying and useless facebook messenger app from my pc that forces me to open any link in microsoft edge, a browser i didnt necessarily dislike but now have no intention to use as my main browser for me or my clients anymore.

No matter how good or bad your browser will be i am now refusing to use it with the same passion you shove it down peoples throats.
Ill open a tab in chrome with messenger whenever ill need it from now on and every new pc installation will have chrome installed and set as main browser by default.

Our families use Messenger for daily updates. I now cannot easily read the messages or view pics etc on my PC. Brilliant on Chrome absolutely useless in edge. I have tried the methods suggested but none work.. It is ridiculous that I can read easily the messenger popup in Facebook but not in Messenger itself. Any suggestions for a good alternative? My patience is fast running out.

Okay, here's what I did today. It works great for me (Windows 11, Desktop machine), and I hope it will be a good solution for you, too.

1. Open the Windows Messenger App. Then do the following:

2. Open your Chrome and paste the link. The screen should look exactly the same as in the Windows app.
3. Click the three dots icon in Chrome's top right corner, click on Cast, save, and Share, and select "Create shortcut". The shortcut should be on your Desktop now. You can also pin it in your Taskbar and use it whenever you like to use Messenger in the future. ;)

This should open Messenger in your favorite browser and also look the same as the Windows App.

Let me know if this works for you too.

Martin

Can we please stop making comments that are just complaints against Meta and Microsoft? Let's keep the discussion practical, centered around the solutions/workarounds.

I will repeat my current workaround: For me, the older version of the non-browser app is working great (downloadable from https://messenger.en.uptodown.com/windows/download/1026550438). Every time I reboot the PC and the app is loaded as part of that process, it suggests upgrading, but I simply click "Not Now" and the popup goes away. (I know that others have described how to make it a Chrome-based browser app, but I use Firefox, which Messenger doesn't yet support for video/audio calling.)

NO.
We are complaining because the complaint IS against Meta and Microsoft. The only way to get a practical ACTUAL solution is to complain about the root problem.

If/when we ALL complain, if nothing is done, once again we will be able to enjoin the eventual class-action lawsuit. I have enjoined TWO against Microsoft's monopolistic practices and been paid for both.

Time and time again, going back to Internet Explorer, Microsoft has joined monopolistic forces to require we use a browser we don't want to use. I still do NOT want to use Internet Explorer, even if they renamed it Edge and gave it a new logo some years ago. I could give you all the technical reasons this monopolistic practice in particular is bad.

I am a Microsoft Certified Professional who does not work for Microsoft.

And I am tired of people making excuses for monopolistic practices for which Microsft is repeatedly punished. Even more, I am tired of people turning the tables on those who have legitimate complaints.

The aforementioned "solutions" are no more practical than advising people to download an illegal version of Windows. And your "workaround" will stop working the second the Microsoftopoly figures out a practical way to shut that workaround door.

I had successfully edited my registry to prevent any unknowing interfacing with Edge, and this Microsoft misconduct and collusion with Meta threw that all out the window.

So, please, stop making comments shilling for Microsoft and Meta, and show some respect and support for those who aren't interested in tacit support of these monopolies.