Previewing in different browsers

[RichSc]

Hi,
Does anyone know to preview the webpage in different browsers. When I look at youtube vids etc Xara designer seems to have its own inbuilt browser where you can then select the different browsers to view it with.
My version doesn't have this, it just opens the microsoft edge browser (the default on my PC) and there doesn't seem to be any way to preview in e.g. Chrome.

does anyone know how to do it?
thanks
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Richard

[Acorn]

Rich, welcome to TalkGraphics.

Xara replaced the old style Preview as it used a defunct Internet Explorer viewer.
Preview now opens in your default browser.

I engaged with Xara in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...562#post631562 to no avail so you could build something I developed in that Thread.

To fire up MS Edge, you can precede the URL in the your browser address bar with "microsoft-edge:".
For the others, it is a copy & paste job.

As MS Edge is now chromium-based, checking in it might cover Chrome.
It is usually Firefox that has issues.

My personal solution has been to Export Locally where I have a local web server and I have Shortcuts in all my browsers to that location.
Messy but effective.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Once you preview the site copy the URL from the browser, something like http://localhost:8000/virtecff27c8/index.htm

And then just paste this address into your installed browsers.

[RichSc]

Thanks for your answers. Can't understand how Xara can leave out an easy method to choose which browser you want to preview in.
Serif webplus which I used many years ago could do this!

[handrawn]

its probably more to do with Windows no longer allowing the IE API [as acorn referred to] - my guess is serif used the same

there may no longer be an easy way for a program to launch browsers other than windows edge [security an' all]

[gwpriester]

Xara used to do this as well until a few releases ago. Any installed browser showed up to select from. Steve is probably right.