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If you try to open stackoverflow website using Internet Explorer, somehow it closes the tab and opens microsoft edge + browse to stackoverflow website?!

How does stackoverflow accomplish this?

ADyson
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RG Servers
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    This is not stackoverflow doing. its being done by Microsoft policies. read more here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-learnmore-neededge#:~:text=You%20can%20access%20this%20setting,This%20is%20the%20default%20behavior. – mrtechtroid Apr 20 '22 at 06:15
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    this works for those sites which have sent a request to microsoft that they wont work in IE. but you can set up a javascript redirect to achieve the same. Read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64555514/15107474 – mrtechtroid Apr 20 '22 at 06:17

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<a href="microsoft-edge:https://www.stackoverflow.com">StackOverflow</a>

This should open a tab in Edge, but I'm unsure if it'll prioritize Edge over IE.

From what I remember as well, there should be a way to check in JavaScript if the user is using a Windows-related device, and you can then add the 'microsoft-edge:' portion to the href.

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