How to open URL in Microsoft Edge from the command line?

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Jan Štola picture Jan Štola · Jul 1, 2015 · Viewed 120k times · Source

I need to open URL in Microsoft Edge (on Windows 10). When I invoke

start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge http://www.google.com

then Microsoft Edge is started correctly but it doesn't open the given URL (www.google.com, in this case). It opens Bing search where the given URL is used as a search term instead.

Answer

Charles Morris - MSFT picture Charles Morris - MSFT · Jul 8, 2015

The following method should work via Command Prompt (cmd):

start microsoft-edge:http://www.cnn.com

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