Set TweetDeck links to open in Chrome (or FireFox)

In: software

18 Mar 2009

For some reason, when I clicked links in TweetDeck, they would open in FireFox even though my default browser is Chrome.  Here’s how to change that on XP.

  1. Click “Start”->”Settings”->”Control Panel”->”Add or Remove Programs”
  2. Click the “Set Program Access and Defaults” button on the left
  3. Expand the selected configuration
  4. Set Chrome (or whatever browser you want to use) as the default Web browser

I don’t know why TweetDeck doesn’t automatically direct it to the default browser (maybe it’s an Adobe AIR problem), but that’s how to fix it.

5 Responses to Set TweetDeck links to open in Chrome (or FireFox)

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Juan

May 23rd, 2009 at 10:18 pm

THANKS !!! VERY USEFUL…

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SWS

July 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Something basic but not at all intuitive to this former Mac user. Thank you.

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rak

September 8th, 2009 at 4:31 am

I made the change while Chrome was running but it didn’t take effect until I restarted it (and no, that doesn’t make any sense to me either.)

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Paul de Roos

August 29th, 2010 at 11:14 am

Your explanation helped me to figure this out for Windows 7.

A very similar approach also works for Windows 7:
Control panel > Programs > Under heading “Default Programs” click on “Set your default programs” > Chose Browser of your choice “Choose defaults for this program” and “Set this program as default”

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James

September 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 am

Thanks for this.

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