In Windows 8, can you use a different default browser for Metro/WinRT apps than for normal desktop apps?

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Published on 2012-06-28T02:46:18Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 3:18 UTC
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I'm playing with the windows 8 consumer preview, and one thing I've noticed is that by default the metro/winRT apps respect my choice of Chrome as my default browser. That's probably a good thing for the default, out of the box behavior for Windows. However, what I'm finding as I play with the preview is that, when I'm using a metro/WinRT/tiled app (and only when I'm using one of these apps) I would prefer internet links opened from within those apps use the metro version of Internet Explorer.

This issue isn't so much that I like IE here as it is the experience transitioning between the metro world and the desktop world is jarring. I want to limit the transitions. Perhaps when the metro version of firefox is released I might prefer it instead.

The point is that I want a different default browser setting for the WinRT stuff than I do for the legacy desktop stuff. Is this possible?

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