How do I avoid Microsoft Edge ?

[WSinc]

When I updated to Windows 10, the browser in VS for the Fortran compiler help uses

Edge, which has some problems. ( I reported those before.)

currently I have to cut and paste the URL over to Google chrome, which works fine.

But is rather awkward.

But is there a way to tell the VS shell to go there by default?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It uses your default browser. You can change that - search in the Windows taskbar for Default Programs. Select Set your default programs, select Google Chrome and then Set as Default. There isn't a way to set this specifically for VS.

[WSinc]

Ok. I will try that.   thanx ! !

[WSinc]

I looked, and it says that Google Chrome IS the default browser. So why does VS point me to Microsoft Edge?

any way to avoid that?

I wouldn't bother, except for all the problems with that.

[WSinc]

Is this browser Google chrome for these messages ?

Apparently, the Fortran Compiler documentation does not care what the default is - - -

[Steven_L_Intel1]

When I use VS in Windows 10, it uses Chrome for the documentation since I have that as my default. I don't know why it is still going to Edge for you. This is handled by Visual Studio - we don't have control over it. But if I did select Edge as the default, I didn't have a problem with the documentation. I understand some people do.

I don't know what you mean by "Is this browser Google chrome for these messages?"

[WSinc]

I meant these forum messages.

I guees it has to be Chrome, though.

Can someome ask the VS people abiut this ?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This forum uses whichever browser you opened the site in. It doesn't care which browser you use.

Try this - in Chrome, click on the menu icon in the upper right and select Settings. At the bottom of the page under Default Browser, what does it say?

[WSinc]

It tells me that Google Chrome is the default.

[mecej4]

I have noticed after upgrading to Windows 10 that file associations were not being honored immediately after they had been changed (using the ASSOC and FSET commands, by me).

This may have been an undesirable effect resulting from Microsoft's attempting to cure file association highjacking by offering an opportunity for the user to confess that he/she was the highjacker. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/21/new_windows_10_build_10122_aims_to_fix_file_association_hijacking/ .

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I just tried this - again. Set my default browser to Edge and opened the 16.0 documentation. Worked fine. See attached screenshot (note that the file type is .htm and that it opened in Edge.)

Bill, can you show a screenshot of what doesn't work in Edge?

If you browse (not in a web browser) to C:\Program Files (x86)\IntelSWTools\documentation_2016\en\compiler_f/common\core\index.htm and double-click on that file, where does it open?

[WSinc]

OK, I get this when I try to do a "search"

Ya know, one of the 3 buttons on the top menu.

and rather than do that, I cannot scroll the left pane which has the topic list.

So a very limited set of topics are available to look at.

See attached PNG file.

Also, it does not recognize that file location you gave me.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Well, the file I mentioned has to be there because you have it open in Edge. I tried scrolling and doing a search and it worked for me.

I think what I'd suggest is uninstalling Intel Parallel Studio XE and reinstalling.

[mecej4]

I can reproduce the problem on Windows 10-X64 if I open Edge and paste in the URL of the local file: file:///C:/LANG/INTEL16/documentation_2016/en/compiler_f/common/core/index.htm , after which I click on "Search" and I get the same error pop-up that Billsincl showed. With IE, Chrome and Opera the search works properly when I paste in the same URL and click on "Search", and the Javascript files are in the expected location, in ...\documentation_2016\en\compiler_f\common\core.

I do not normally use Edge because it is missing much functionality that we have come to expect from a browser. I also have Parallel Studio installed in a non-default location, but the location of the .js file relative to the PS base directory is the same as in Billsincl's screenshot. Based on this, I suspect that reinstalling the compiler package may not solve the problem. I suggest that he should not use Edge, at least for viewing the HTML documentation.

It may be the case that, by default, Edge does not allow Javascript. When I used IE, I had to give permission in a pop-up before the search worked. If Edge has a way to enable Javascript, I could not find it in the few minutes that I spent trying to do so. Nor did I find a "Help" feature in Edge. This browser really has an "alpha" feel.

P.S. I just found this page, which says that enabling Javascript in Edge requires running gpedit.msc, which is available in W10-Pro and up, but not in W10-Home: https://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleid=17961 .

[Steven_L_Intel1]

You installed to a nondefault location. I opened the default location and can search just fine. JavaScript also works (I can't believe Edge would disable JavaScript by default as it is so widely used.) In fact, one of the special features of Edge is a super-fast JavaScript engine. I can find articles saying how to disable JavaScrfipt, but most of the web would not work if it was disabled by default.

I know that IE had a wide range of "security" settings one could enable, including running "active content" on local files, but I don't see anything user-accessible for Edge.

[WSinc]

Well, I got EDGE by installing Windows 10. It said "click here" to install it.

So we don't have any choices on where to put it, default or otherwise.

Sure, I dont want to use EDGE cause it has so many problems.

I would just like for the VS to point to another browser of our choice,

and apparently that is not available within VS itself ?

[WSinc]

Actually, I did look around, and sure enough, the "Default Browser" choice is in a Windows

setting menu. So I just told it to point to Google Chrome.

Apparently the default browser is set to EDGE when you install Windows 10.

Wouldn't it be nice if they at least ASKed us first, right ?

Especially if its not debugged - - - - 

[Steven_L_Intel1]

They do ask, actually, but they make it hard to say no. When you first boot into Windows 10 it asks you if you want the "recommended" settings. If not, you are then shown a number of app classes where you can uncheck the box to not use the "recommended" default - one of these is Edge.

VS does not have an option to choose a browser. As it is supposed to, it honors the user's choice of default browser.

So now it works the way you want?

[WSinc]

It looks like I'm good to go on this -

Yeah, I remember where they said "recommended settings," but you have to say NO to browse thru all the choices,

and that's where I went astray.