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• File Set-defaultBrowser.ps1 — part of check-in [5745cb7201] at 2018-06-10 13:59:07 on branch trunk — With this function I can switch between Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari as default browser. It is just a start. There might be some more registry keys to be changed (user: Andy Myatt size: 2868)

# encoding: ascii
# api: powershell
# title: Set-defaultBrowser
# description: With this function I can switch between Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari as default browser. It is just a start. There might be some more registry keys to be changed
# version: 0.1
# type: function
# author: Andy Myatt
# license: CC0
# function: Set-DefaultBrowser
# x-poshcode-id: 5678
# x-derived-from-id: 5679
# x-archived: 2017-05-17T23:55:33
# x-published: 2017-01-09T11:13:00
#
#
function Set-DefaultBrowser
{
    param($defaultBrowser)

    $regKey      = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\{0}\UserChoice"
    $regKeyFtp   = $regKey -f 'ftp'
    $regKeyHttp  = $regKey -f 'http'
    $regKeyHttps = $regKey -f 'https'

    switch -Regex ($defaultBrowser.ToLower())
    {
        # Internet Explorer
        { 'ie|internet|explorer' } {
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyFtp   -name ProgId IE.FTP
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttp  -name ProgId IE.HTTP
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttps -name ProgId IE.HTTPS
            break
        }
        # Firefox
        { 'ff|firefox' } {
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyFtp   -name ProgId FirefoxURL
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttp  -name ProgId FirefoxURL
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttps -name ProgId FirefoxURL
            break
        }
        # Google Chrome
        { 'cr|google|chrome' -contains $_ } {
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyFtp   -name ProgId ChromeHTML
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttp  -name ProgId ChromeHTML
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttps -name ProgId ChromeHTML
            break
        }
        # Safari
        { 'sa*|apple' } {
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyFtp   -name ProgId SafariURL
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttp  -name ProgId SafariURL
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttps -name ProgId SafariURL
            break
        }
        # Opera
        { 'op*' } {
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyFtp   -name ProgId Opera.Protocol
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttp  -name ProgId Opera.Protocol
            Set-ItemProperty $regKeyHttps -name ProgId Opera.Protocol
            break
        }
    } 
    
# thanks to http://newoldthing.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/how-does-your-browsers-know-that-its-not-the-default-browser/
        
<#
(Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\ftp\UserChoice').ProgId
(Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice').ProgId
(Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\https\UserChoice').ProgId
#>

}

# Set-DefaultBrowser cr
# Set-DefaultBrowser ff
# Set-DefaultBrowser ie
# Set-DefaultBrowser op
# Set-DefaultBrowser sa