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IFS document links embedded in SharePoint work fine when the user's default browser is Internet Explorer or Edge, but fail when it's Chrome, Firefox, or similar, since the link needs to first launch IFS10 in a browser those links can't force open. Is there a way to force such a link to open in a specific browser regardless of the user's actual default browser?

Answer

No — this is fundamentally the browser's own security sandboxing model, not anything IFS-specific. Chrome, and similarly sandboxed browsers, deliberately don't allow a website to force-open a link in a different browser without the user's own explicit action, to avoid violating that sandboxed security model. Third-party browser extensions exist that let a user manually redirect a specific link to open in a different browser, but the user themselves has to initiate that redirect each time — there's no way to force this behavior automatically purely from the IFS/SharePoint side.

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