Adobe Air Applications Not Opening Links In Default Browser [Fix]
Posted By Keith Dsouza On October 30, 2008 @ 5:44 am In Annoyances | No Comments
For quite some time I was facing a problem where Adobe Air [1] applications particularly Tweetdeck (or any twitter [2] client) did not open the links in my default system browser (Google Chrome [3]) and opened the link in Firefox [4] which was my earlier default browser.
Initially I tried to pinpoint the issue to Tweetdeck [5], but it seems like the issue is with Adobe Air itself.
This issue happens because even though you may have changed your default browser a registry entry pointing to the the .htm class type has not been updated by Windows. To read more about this issue visit Adobe Air / Firefox issue on Vista [6].
If your default browser is Firefox and the clicked links open in Internet Explorer, Adobe Air has included a fix [7] in their release note, that will allow you to fix this issue. If your default browser is Google [8] Chrome and the links are opening in some other browser, here is a fix [9] that will point Adobe Air to open all links in Google Chrome.
There is also a more generic fix [10] for opening Adobe Air links in any default browser.
Thanks to Iain Dodsworth the founder of TweetDeck for pointing this out [11].
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URLs in this post:
[1] Adobe Air: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/adobe-air
[2] twitter: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/twitter
[3] Google Chrome: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/google-chrome
[4] Firefox: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/firefox-3
[5] Tweetdeck: http://techie-buzz.com/twitter/ultimate-list-of-twitter-applications-and-websites.html
[6] Adobe Air / Firefox issue on Vista: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/07/09/adobe-air-firefox-issue-on-vista/
[7] included a fix: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403978&sliceId=1#E4
[8] Google: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/google
[9] here is a fix: http://blog.dotsmart.net/2008/09/03/setting-google-chrome-as-the-default-browser-for-adobe-air-apps/
[10] more generic fix: http://agoln.net/archives/148
[11] pointing this out: http://twitter.com/iaindodsworth/status/981001243
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