Question

When I debug in Visual Studio, Firefox opens and that is annoying because of the hookups that Internet Explorer and Visual Studio have, such as when you close the Internet Explorer browser that starting debug opened, Visual Studio stops debugging. How can I get Visual Studio to open Internet Explorer instead without having to set Internet Explorer as my default browser?

Answer 1

Scott Guthrie has made a post on how to change Visual Studio’s default browser:

1) Right click on a .aspx page in your solution explorer

2) Select the ‘browse with’ context menu option

3) In the dialog you can select or add a browser. If you want Firefox in the list, click ‘add’ and point to the firefox.exe filename

4) Click the ‘Set as Default’ button to make this the default browser when you run any page on the site.

I however dislike the fact that this isn’t as straightforward as it should be.