# Changing GCU default browser

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 20, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773 "2023-10-20T16:11:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/1 "2023-10-20T16:11:35Z")

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Recent retirement of MS Internet Explorer seems to have disabled the "Go to webpage" link in my Gateway Control Utility for 7.9. Is there somewhere that this can be directed to Chrome as the default?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/2 "2023-10-20T16:18:41Z")

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Ancient software. Probably not. Is there any reason you can't just put a bookmark in Chrome?

(And get used to not having that utility itself--it doesn't exist in v8+.)

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**Author:** ![ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/3 "2023-10-20T16:23:24Z")

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I was hoping there was a registry entry that could be updated. But a bookmark is an option.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/4 "2023-10-20T16:31:13Z")

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I thought that link just asked the system to use whatever the default browser is... do you have Chrome set as default?

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**Author:** ![ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/5 "2023-10-20T16:31:42Z")

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Yes.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/6 "2023-10-20T16:41:29Z")

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Hmm, don't know then 🤷‍♂️

I just checked and it does use an API that just defers to the OS to open the default browser for the given URI.

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**Author:** ![ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ROBERT.BAUMGARTNER)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-gcu-default-browser/80773/7 "2023-10-20T16:46:59Z")

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Thanks for looking into it. Guess the bookmark will have to do.