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Q&A How can I halt Windows from forthwith switching to Google Chrome, after I click on URLs on Skype?

Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? I like to click and open URL's — tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question windows skype
#4: Post edited by user avatar TextKit‭ · 2022-01-01T08:36:25Z (almost 3 years ago)
  • Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?
  • To remember URL's that counterparties on Skype message me, I like to click them and open them in my browser straightaway, to remind me to read them after Skype. Unquestionably, it's unproductive to click one URL, then have Windows switch to Chrome — then I must minimize Chrome and return to Skype. Undeniably, I loathe repeating this with each URL messaged me.
  • Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?
  • I like to click and open URL's that counterparties on Skype message me — straightaway in my browser, to remind me to read them after I finish Skyping. Unquestionably, it's unproductive to click one URL, then have Windows switch to Chrome — then I must minimize Chrome and return to Skype. Undeniably, I loathe repeating this with each URL messaged me.
#3: Post edited by user avatar TextKit‭ · 2022-01-01T08:34:16Z (almost 3 years ago)
  • Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?
  • Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?
  • To remember URL's that counterparties on Skype message me, I like to click them and open them in my browser straightaway, to remind me to read them after Skype. Unquestionably, it's unproductive to click one URL, then have Windows switch to Chrome — then I must minimize Chrome and return to Skype. Undeniably, I loathe repeating this with each URL messaged me.
#2: Post edited by user avatar Quasímodo‭ · 2021-12-29T16:29:16Z (almost 3 years ago)
Add Windows tag; Fix typo.
How can I halt Windows from forthwith switching to Google Chrome, after I click on URLs on Skype?
  • Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the Webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?
  • Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?
#1: Initial revision by user avatar TextKit‭ · 2021-12-29T09:18:19Z (almost 3 years ago)
How can I halt Windows from forthwith switching to Google Chrome, after I click on URLs on Skype?
Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the Webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype?