In fact, there isn't even a setting to let you designate it as your default browser.
Does it bother to update if ie isn't your default browser?
I'm not too proud to tell you I used askjeeves as my default browser for a good amount of time.
I wonder how easy it is to change the default browser in Win 8 and what kind of side effects there might be.
Pardus 2011 came with Firefox 4.0 as the default browser.
I made it my default browser today, just to see.
But I probably should make that my default browser almost.
In some countries, Opera Mini is the default browser instead.
Camino 0.7 was popular it quickly became my default browser.
This means that it handles Web content approximately the same way as the default browser.