Posted on 11/09/2021 10:50:51 AM PST by Still Thinking
So I was standardized on Opera for several years, tried Brave, didn't really like it, and then someone on here recommended Vivaldi. I tried it and really like it, it's my main browser now.
Problem is, it seems to lose the file-type association for web links and http files and so on. I clicked on a link in an email and it opened the box inviting me to tell it what program to use, and -- Vivaldi wasn't even one of the pre-registered options, only Opera.
So I browsed to the location (which is oddly in %APPDATA%), and explicitly told Widows to use it. It did work, but it's been associated for a while, so why would it break? Also, immediately after installation, it seemed like it hadn't set itself as the default, NS for like two days after that, every time I'd run it I'd get the prompt to make the default (again) even though I'd already done so.
Anyone have any idea why it would do this? I've never had that happen before with Firefox or anything else. Is it a known thing with Vivaldi?
(Win 7 BTW)
Opera is uncomplicated and seems to accept what needs to be done w/ Win-7 files. I can’t speak for Win8-10-11, but I had some O/S ‘glitches’ with Vivaldi when I tried it a year ago, and uninstalled it. i use Opera as my primary browser, with Pale Moon and Firefox as back-ups.
Oh OK. Thank you for the recommendation!
Start button> Control Panel> Set your default programs
On the left side locate the web browser you want as the default and click on it.
At the bottom right column click on:
Set this program as default
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