Configuring CoffeCup HTML Editor for browser support

1. Click on Tools from the menu bar at the top of the CoffeeCup HTML editor window.
2. Select Preferences.
3. Click on the Browser Testing tab.

   

4. If you want to change what browser the HTML editor uses for internal previews from the default of "Internet Explorer (Compatibility Mode)", you can click on the downward pointing arrow head for the "Internal Preview Uses" field and select from the following (those are the ones I saw as available on a Windows 8 system):
   • Internet Explorer (Compatibility Mode)
   • Internet Explorer 8
   • Internet Explorer 9
   • Internet Explorer 10
   • Internet Explorer 11
5. For Additioal Browser 1, you can change the display name from "Favorite Browser" to whatever you like, e.g., perhaps, "Firefox", if that is your first choice for an additional browser. To the right of "Application Location" you will see a button with a yellow folder with a green arrow on it; you can click on it to browse to the location of the browser. E.g., you might browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe.
6. Click on "Additional Browser 2", if you wish to select a second additional browser, such as Chrome. Provide a display name for it and click on the yellow folder button to locate the application. E.g., for Chrome, you might find the executable file at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe".
7. Click on OK when completed adding browsers.

To test viewing a web page you are working on with the additional browsers you've added, open a page to edit in the CoffeeCup HTML Editor or click on File and select New HTML Page then select Tools and then Test with Default Browser or Additional Browsers.

If you get a message similar to "Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Program Files (x86)/Editors/CoffeeCup HTML Editor/~tm779D.html." when you click on Tools and Test with Default Browser or select one of the additional browsers for a test, it is likely because the account you are using isn't an administrator account and so can't create temporary files in that folder. I don't know why the HTML Editor developers would select a folder where regular user accounts should not be able to create or modify files as a default location to create new or temporary files. But some software developers still in 2015 seem to assume that Microsoft Windows users will use accounts that have administrator access for regular work. Many Windows users still do that, a practice that makes it easy for malware purveyors to infect systems.

To remedy the problem, click on Tools, then Preferences then click on Folders. Change the location of the "Default Working Folder" from C:\Program Files (x86)\CoffeeCup HTML Editor, or whatever it happens to be, to one for which the account you are using has access.

E.g., you could change it to C:\Users\userid\Documents\CoffeeCup Software\HTML Editor\ where userid is whatever the user name is for the account you are using. Then click on OK. You will need to close and reopen the HTML Editor for the change to take effect.

 

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Created: Friday June 19, 2015