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Pressing F1 in VS launches Microsoft's Document Explorer. How can I open the help results in my web browser instead?

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Have a look in the Options, under Help / Online.

There you can select - try online first, then local

And you can select multiple providers to search in.

Frederik Gheysels
I edited the question so my intention is clearer.
mafutrct
still what he says is right. You can set the option search online only and it'd pop up firefox with the search, provided it is your default provider.
Anirudh Goel
You can specify in VS.NET that the internal help viewer should be used instead of the external one, which is maybe a bit faster.
Frederik Gheysels
It still opens up Microsoft Document Explorer and i don't see how to change that.
mafutrct
+1  A: 

I think this is the answer you are looking for:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334212/load-search-url-in-browser-from-visual-studio

Michael Silver