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Can you fully uninstall Edge on Windows 11?

I use Firefox for everything and Edge keeps opening itself for widgets and search results. The uninstall button is greyed out in Settings. Is there a safe way to remove it completely, or will that break things?
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manish Oct 21, 2026
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Only properly in the EU/EEA, where Microsoft has to let you. Everywhere else the greyed out button is on purpose, and the scripts that rip it out tend to break widgets, search and other things. Big updates often put it back anyway. Whatever you do, leave WebView2 alone, since loads of apps use it. The cleaner fix for your problem: set Firefox as the default for http, https and .htm in Default apps. Then try a redirect tool like MSEdgeRedirect for the widgets and search links that force Edge.
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