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Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201504020001) Java: 1.8.0_40-ea; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.40-b25 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_40-ea-b22 System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_CA (nb) User directory: C:\Users\Gili\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\dev Cache directory: C:\Users\Gili\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\dev In the past, Netbeans' default browser used to map correctly to the OS default browser (Firefox or Chrome in my case). About a year ago, the default stopped working and instead Netbeans started using Internet Explorer exclusively regardless of the OS default. I opened "Tools -> Options -> General -> <Default System Browser> -> Edit" and sure enough it is configured to run "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe". Why aren't you using the Desktop.browse(URI) API? To repro: 1. Click on a bug id in Exception Reporter. 2. Click "Show in Browser" 3. Notice that Internet Explorer is opened in spite of the fact the OS default is different.
Can you reproduce this problem?
(In reply to _ gtzabari from comment #1) > Can you reproduce this problem? I am unable to reproduce this problem with latest builds. I tried opening web page from the IDE in linux, mac and windows while having the IDE option set to <Default System Browser>. Whenever I changed the OS's default browser this was taken into account the next time I tried to open a web page from the IDE. Thank you
Confirmed. This works for me in dev build 201509180002.
Reopening as I can reproduce this in: Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201602010002) Java: 1.8.0_74; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.74-b02 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_74-b02 System: Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64; UTF-8; en_CA (nb) User directory: C:\Users\Gili\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\dev Cache directory: C:\Users\Gili\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\dev This seems to be environment-specific because I do not run into this problem at work (running Windows 7) but this happens consistently at home (running Windows 10). If I run Desktop.browse(URI) on my home computer, it opens Chrome (which is correct). But if I CTRL+LMB click on Javadoc links then Netbeans opens Internet Explorer which is incorrect. If I go into Netbeans -> Tools -> Options -> General -> Default System Browser -> Edit it always points to Internet Explorer. What value is Netbeans looking up in order to determine the default system browser? Is this a registry entry? If so, which one?
Theofanis, I just reinstalled Windows 10 PRO, JDK 1.8.0_92 and Netbeans dev build 201606080002 and the problem is still there. How did you open web pages from the IDE? Are you clicking on Exception Reporter -> Show in Browser as I did? Or are you using some other action?
I repeat the question: What value is Netbeans looking up in order to determine the default system browser? Is this a registry entry? If so, which one?
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201705191307) Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 2 Java: 1.8.0_121; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.121-b13 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_121-b13 System: Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_US (nb) User directory: C:\Users\Kilzeus\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.2 Cache directory: C:\Users\Kilzeus\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\8.2 This issue is still present on Windows 10. IE shows up as default browser which it is most definitely not, Chrome is. I have also selected Chrome instead of default browser just to make sure, but when I try to click error links in the output produced by Maven project it still opens up IE which is really, really annoying.
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