If you do not want to use the default app to be launched when you click on a file or URI scheme, you can block it using the Local Group Policy Editor as well as the Registry Editor in Windows 11/10.
Currently, when a local file is opened in Google Chrome, the browser's address bar displays a file:// address that contains the path to the local file that is opened. In Chrome 70, Google has ...
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