Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

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Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008 | MS Tech News — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:31:28 GMT

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re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Henk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:23:38 GMT

How is this possible in a web application? You don't have the 'Browse with..'option.

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Henk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:24:06 GMT

How is this possible in a web application? You don't have the 'Browse with..'option.

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

vikram — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:07:18 GMT

I blogged about the same some time back here.

http://www.vikramlakhotia.com/Changing_the_default_browser_and_its_default_Size_in_Visual_Studio_2008_Orcas.aspx

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

DarthSwian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:08 GMT

Henk, I don't know what application you're using, but my VS 2008 allows Browse With for Web Applications.

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

BradA — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:29 GMT

Henk -- If you set FireFox as your default browser, then just hitting F5 will run it rather than IE.

Hope that helps!

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Matt — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:08:30 GMT

Henk,

It may be that you are actually debugging when you right clicked. If you stop debugging, then right click on an aspx page (not ascx) you should have that option.

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Travis — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:21:11 GMT

That was easy, now I just need to figure out how to force Visual Studio to use the same tab in FF every time I debug a web app. It creates a new tab when I start the debugging process.

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re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Henk — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:28:22 GMT

I'm using VWD Express 2008 SP1 to develop a MVC application

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Andy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:04:02 GMT

Travis:

I don't think that is possible IMHO. Please let me know if you find the solution. Appreciate that, thanks!

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Alex D — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:35:07 GMT

Well, the solution is kinda awkward, but worked for me (I'm developing MVC too).

Close the current project and create a new Web solution, you should be able to see the "Browse with..." menu item now when you right-click on Default.aspx file. Set new default browser, do a test run, then close the empty solution, and reopen the MVC project.

Hope this helps

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Alex D — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:36:49 GMT

Forgot to say, the dummy solution where you change it should be "ASP.NET Web site", not the ASP.NET MVC, since the latter is not treated as a website in VS2008

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

cryothic — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:59:53 GMT

Well, I can run my website, and it opens in firefox.

But closing the browser doesn't trigger Visual Studio to stop running :(

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

James F — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:51:42 GMT

I finally got tired of IE hanging several times a day, and made the switch to FF.

When I close FF, Visual Studio 2008 does not stop debugging. I have to close the ASP.NET Developer server using the tray icon. Actually, there are two of those, on different ports. One will be the magic one, though I close both. Is this going to be how it is from now on?

re: Enabling Firefox support in Visual Studio 2008

Mark — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:10:21 GMT

The answer to the last two questions is yes :(. What's happening is that FireFox launches each new browser window in the existing FireFox process if there is one. Try this: close any existing FF window and then launch your app in debug mode. Now exit it. Did Visual Studio drop out of run mode? It should have, because it saw the debugged process terminate. Try it again with a pre-existing FF window. Now it doesn't drop out of run mode, because the process it attached to is still running. You can explicitly hit "Stop Debugging" at this point and it will drop out. Or you can close the pre-existing window too, and then VS will drop out of run mode.

I wish there were a reliable way to either get FF to create a new process for each window, or set IE as the browser for debugging my Visual Studio apps while leaving FF as my default browser for everything else.