links in pidgin opening in firefox when chrome is the default browser

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Sun Oct 9 05:46:46 EDT 2011


David Freedman wrote:
> 
> I use Chrome as my default browser, but I still use Firefox for certain 
> things (*cough* downloadhelper *cough*). Any links that I click on in 
> Pidgin are opening in Firefox for some reason, and I end up having to 
> wait for FF to load up since I don't usually have it open... it's just 
> kind of annoying. This was happening before, and I upgraded to the 
> latest version, but it's still happening.

Pidgin will use shellexecute on Windows, so it will use whatever is 
defined as your default web browser.

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