Rufio

Chrome won't load locally stored HTML files

By Rufio, in Internet Browsers

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A lot of the programs I have running on my computer came with HTML help files. When the I use the in-program links to open them Chrome just spits out the following error:

This browser does not display help installed on your local machine. Please use another browser to view the help. For more information, see Chromium issue 47416 (
).

This is super frustrating because I don't know how to set it up so local files will use IE or FF instead, while still keeping Chrome as my primary browser. I would prefer to just use Chrome for everything though. Does anyone have a fix for this?

[This is running Chrome version 25.0.1364.172 m]

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