Live Preview doesn't work if you install Chrome after install of Brackets

[educatedrisk]

Hello All,
Just came across Brackets on youtube and had to try it out. Now after spending way too much time trying to get Live Preview working .. I un-installed the Brackets and re-installed and the live preview finally worked.

You have to have Google Chrome installed before installing Brackets or doesn't setup the Live Preview Connection.

[njx]

Reviewed. Medium priority to @gruehle for sprint 27--seems bad.

[gruehle]

@educatedrisk sorry you're having problems. Can you tell me a bit about your system. Are you on Windows or Mac? What is your OS version? What version of Brackets are you using?

I just tried the following on a fresh OSX 10.8 image:

1. Install Brackets Sprint 26
2. Launch Brackets
3. Start Live Preview. Get an error message saying "Can't launch Chrome"
4. Install Chrome
5. Start Live Preview again

Everything worked (I did have to click through the initial Chrome "Do you want to set Chrome as your default browser" dialog).

[gruehle]

@educatedrisk one more question: Do you have anti-virus software installed? If so, which one?

[educatedrisk]

@gruehle Sorry it took so long to respond.

I am using Windows 7, the lastest version of Brackets.

I got the live preview working, but I had to un-install brackets, install chrome and then install brackets again.

I was just making the comment to help people out. If you try and install Brackets and then Google Chrome the live preview will not work. But if you have Google Chrome installed first and then install Brackets on a Windows7 machine it will work.

[gruehle]

@educatedrisk - thanks for the info. I tried to reproduce on Windows 7 by uninstalling Chrome, but didn't have any problems. This may only be an issue if you are starting with a clean machine that has never had Chrome installed.

I added a note to the troubleshooting page in case others run into the same problem.