This came up the other day:
;;https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/76207-send-a-text-message-by-whatsapp/
(defun open_url_in_chrome (url / sa);by ronjonp
(and (setq sa (vlax-get-or-create-object "Shell.Application"))
(null (vlax-invoke sa 'shellexecute "chrome.exe" url))
(vlax-release-object sa)
)
)
You can put in the 'exe' name ( msedge.exe in this case ), or like MHUPP says will also do _browser for the default browser, a slightly different method to yours and I don't know if the interface will work as you want but it looks like it might