I’m running Windows 8.1. As far as I can tell I have Chrome set up as my default browser for all options under “Default Programs”. However anytime I open a link from the Unreal Engine 4 Launcher they open in Internet Explorer.
Is there a way to not have Unreal Launcher not open links in a browser other than Internet Explorer?
Thanks!
Hi tmek,
This isn’t an issue that I experience. I have Chrome as my default browser, and links from the Launcher do open in Chrome. Interestingly, we have received a similar report from another user who only had links open in Firefox while Opera was his default (Unreal Engine Launcher Default Browser - Community & Industry Discussion - Unreal Engine Forums)
If you have Chrome open in the background when you click on a link, is the page still opening in IE?
Hi Tmek, the open URL code attempts to load with the default browser. However the code that’s in the launcher has a bug in it that prevents it from working correctly all the time. I rewrote that code to fix it, but did so just after launch 
The next full update of the launcher should contain my fix. For now we’re only doing hot fixes on the launcher to fix crash bugs, but soonish I hope it will make its way in!
Cheers,
Nick (Epic Games)
Awesome! Thanks Nick!
I’m signed into a computer as standard user, but UE is running on administrator account.
my standard user acc has chrome as default browser but administrator has edge as default, result is that all links open with edge.
solution in that case was to change Administrator default to chrome, also meaning that chrome must be installed system wide, not per user.