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Changing your debug browser to Fire Fox in Visual Studio 2005

WOW!  I can't believe how much time I just spent trying to change the browser I use to debug with in Visual Studio.  In visual studio 2003 I could have simply gone to File>Browse With.  This (at first glance) no longer appeared to me.  After some research I realized that I was in a "Web Application" project rather than a "Web Site" project.  This appears to mean something very different to Visual Studio.  So I created a quick "Web Site" project (something I never use any more for testability reasons) but still didn't find the "browse with" option.  After some poking around I found that this option was moved to the project context menu - but still only in the "web site" project.  So...in a "web site" project, right click on the project, "browse with".  In the window that pops up, choose add, and then browse to the firefox.exe file (mine was in in program files>mozilla firefox>firefox.exe).  Then hit ok.  And click the "Set as Default" button.  Now you can go back to using your "web application" project!

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# re: Changing your debug browser to Fire Fox in Visual Studio 2005

Gravatar Thanks for this... It worked a treat :) 12/22/2007 4:12 PM | Danny Lister

# re: Changing your debug browser to Fire Fox in Visual Studio 2005

Gravatar And then if you change your debug browser to firefox, is there any way to debug Javascript code in visual studio? It doesn't appear there is. I guess you have to use some type of add on tool like firebug? 1/29/2008 12:05 PM | control13

# re: Changing your debug browser to Fire Fox in Visual Studio 2005

Gravatar What about doing this for VS 2008? 6/21/2008 6:43 PM | Mike

# re: Changing your debug browser to Fire Fox in Visual Studio 2005

Gravatar If you right click on a web page (.aspx) and then select browse with you will get a list of browsers. You can choose one to browse with for that instance...and you can set your selection to default. 6/21/2008 8:01 PM | Andrew Siemer

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