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In order to use IE 10, FF Nightly, or Chrome in Metro mode (As a Windows 8 fullscreen, pinnable app), I have to set it as the default, immediately forcing all other browsers to only run on the desktop. This seems strange to me, as I feel any programmer should be able to put their layout engine into a Metro app without making said app the default browser. Is there a technical or political reason why all Metro browsers require Default status?

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MS defines this way:

Windows 8 also continues to offer desktop app experiences as found in previous versions of Windows. In Windows 8, the browser that the user sets as the default for handling webpages and associated protocols may be designed to access both new experiences as well as the traditional desktop experience. This type of browser is the new experience enabled desktop browser. This guide describes how to create such a browser.

Tiles in the Start screen activate the browser in the new user experience when the browser is the default. When the browser is not the default, tiles activate the browser in the desktop. This same behavior also applies to a browser’s secondary tiles.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=243079

I don't see a (technical) reason why MS did this.

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