EdgeKiller

EdgeKiller is a simple application that fully replaces Microsoft Edge with the Browser of choice, while also intercepting all the microsoft-edge: URIs. It was made as alternative to EdgeDeflector as it doesn't work on Windows 11.

Features

• Replacing Microsoft Edge with the browser of choice (by using Image File Execution Options)
• Replacing default Windows Search web search engine (Bing) with any other (configured in config.json)

Installation

To install EdgeKiller just download the latest release build and follow the installer instructions.

Building

You can also build EdgeKiller from source.

Requirements

• Copy of this repository
• Internet connection (for downloading dependencies)
• CMake
• NSIS (added to PATH)

Once located in the repo root you need to run the following commands.

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build --config Release
makensis installer.nsi

Now there should be an install.exe file in the directory.

Configuration

You can configure EdgeKiller using config.json file located in the installation directory.

key	default value	meaning
preffered_browser_path	chrome.exe	Path to the preffered browser
preffered_search_engine	https://www.google.com/search?q={}	Search engine URL with the query parameter changed to {}