Live preview opens Chrome Canary instead of stable Chrome

[diegovdev]

If both versions of Chrome are installed, Brackets opens Canary instead of regular stable Chrome.

Stable Chrome path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Chrome Canary path: C:\Users\sapeish\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe
Brackets version: sprint 36 build 0.36.0-11506
OS: Windows 7

[redmunds]

Thanks for filing. Can you look in your Registry at this key and let us know if it's set, and if so, to what?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe

[diegovdev]

It is set to:

"C:\Users\sapeish\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe"

But my system default browser is Chrome:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

[redmunds]

Thanks for the info. Brackets uses the registry key I mentioned above to help determine location of chrome.exe, but apparently it is not reliably Chrome stable, so we'll need to research this some more.

As a workaround, you should be able to change that setting to the path to Chrome stable.

Brackets also doesn't want to use system default browser which may be a non-chrome browser.

[dangoor]

Reviewed. We'll call this low priority for now (we can raise it if we start getting a bunch of reports from people having problems because the wrong Chrome is launching).

Note that some form of #6622 would actually be ideal because it would allow a user to selectively run against Canary or their Chrome stable (and eventually other browsers).

[marcofugaro]

Yes, I have the same problem, I installed Brackets fresh shortly and the live prewiew opens always in Google Canary. I'd like to open it on a new tab in normal Chrome.

I also have Win 7 64-bit and Chrome as my default browser. I didn't even know the esistance of Google Canary before this, and therefore I suppose this is common to all users with the same configuration.

Thanks for the help.

Bracket version: sprint 37 Build 0.37.0-12014

[redmunds]

@marcofugaro Brackets seems to load the last Chrome that was installed, so I think you can work around this by uninstalling stable Chrome and re-installing it.

[marcofugaro]

Thanks a lot, will do that.
Again, I'm new to brackets and I would have preferred a choose browser option like they proposed few posts ago. Keep up the good work.

[marcofugaro]

Update: I did as you said, actually found out I didn't even have Chrome Canary installed, so I reinstalled everything, Canary, Chrome and Brackets, and the problem sill persists.

What i found out is that Live Prewiew opens in a new window of the stable version of standard Chrome, totally different from the Chrome I am able to open normally, and you can't merge those windows together.

Moreover this error from Chrome pops up when I try to open Live Preview sometimes

I'm lost at this point and don't know how to proceed, hope this information helps for future debugging.

[redmunds]

Opening Live Preview in a separate window is expected. This is done so Brackets doesn't mess up your other browser windows.

You can clear your Live Preview Chrome profile as follows:

1. In Brackets, use: Help > Show Extensions Folder
2. Shutdown Brackets
3. Navigate up 1 folder level to the Brackets folder
4. Delete the "live-dev-profile" folder
5. Restart Brackets

Does that fix it?

[marcofugaro]

Yes that solved the profile problem, thanks.

Sorry for derailing the thread, I thought you was supposed to use your ordinary tabs.

[redmunds]

Everything here is covered in Chrome section of Troubleshooting guide. Closing.