:Running Down the Way Up » tips http://johncavacas.com/blog Insert blog description here Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:34:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Get Air applications to use Chrome as the default browser http://johncavacas.com/blog/2008/11/06/get-air-applications-to-use-chrome-as-the-default-browser/ http://johncavacas.com/blog/2008/11/06/get-air-applications-to-use-chrome-as-the-default-browser/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:11:50 +0000 jc http://johncavacas.com/blog/?p=63 I’ve been using a couple of Air applications as interfaces to Twitter. Mainly Twhirl (which i now use daily), but for a little while Tweetdeck, and noticed that hyperlinks inside of tweets were spawning Firefox instead of Chrome which was set as my default system browser. After cursing the Air applications, which is where I thought the issue was, I discovered that the issue actually lies with Chrome and the process it runs to set itself up as the default browser. It took a bit of googling around to find this solution, and unfortunately i cannot remember where i did find it, but the solution is as follows on windows.

  • Open up Regedit and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.htm
  • Change, or add the value of .htm to “ChromeHTML” minus the quotes.

That does it. I also read that this should be fixed in the next version of Chrome.

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