Windows 10 - Default browser & identifier links

ownedbycats · 08-26-2020, 11:13 PM

Every few months or so, Windows 10 likes to "forget" my default browser and set it back to the default (insert many curses about Edge here). It happened again today.

I set it back to Vivaldi, but now no matter what I do (restart Calibre, restart Windows, change the default browser to something else), clicking on any identifier links in Calibre (goodreads, amazon, url, etc) fail to open it in the browser. It worked fine before my browser default reset itself.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Barbara1955 · 08-26-2020, 11:40 PM

One of the reasons I HATE Win 10. I fixed mine then added it to my Favs.... So when it updates I just got to favs.

kovidgoyal · 08-26-2020, 11:56 PM

calibre delegates it to Qt which IIRC on windows reads teh registry, though dont quote me on that.

08-26-2020, 11:13 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,970 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Windows 10 - Default browser & identifier links Every few months or so, Windows 10 likes to "forget" my default browser and set it back to the default (insert many curses about Edge here). It happened again today. I set it back to Vivaldi, but now no matter what I do (restart Calibre, restart Windows, change the default browser to something else), clicking on any identifier links in Calibre (goodreads, amazon, url, etc) fail to open it in the browser. It worked fine before my browser default reset itself. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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08-26-2020, 11:40 PM	#2
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,455 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	One of the reasons I HATE Win 10. I fixed mine then added it to my Favs.... So when it updates I just got to favs.

08-26-2020, 11:56 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre delegates it to Qt which IIRC on windows reads teh registry, though dont quote me on that.

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