"Web/Home" button on MS Natural Keyboard works with Chrome, but not Vivaldi [SOLVED]
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First-time poster, and just recently switched to Vivaldi. I set it as the default browser, but the "Web/Home" key on my Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 does not open Vivaldi. If I am in a Vivaldi tab, pressing that button takes me to the new-tab page. The same works with Google Chrome. Any ideas?
Configuration:
Win8.1 Enterprise x64
MS Natural Keyboard 4000, but without the drivers or MS keyboard software loaded (I've not needed it before)Vivaldi 1.15.1147.42 (Stable channel) (32-bit) Revision e6c78ca75e5f4970771b2c6e6727bb07c4a76464- OS Windows JavaScript V8 6.5.254.41 Flash (Disabled) User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.183 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.96.1147.42 Command Line "C:\...\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --vivaldi-standalone --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-smooth-scrolling
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@Gwen-Dragon Thanks for the reply! I did some digging and found a pertinent blog post that I was able to use to get it working (and another source of useful info). In the Registry Editor (so use this information solely at your own risk), I:
- Removed
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7
- Added
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7\ShellExecute =
the path to Vivaldi.
Works fine now! The REG file is below in case it helps anyone.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7] "ShellExecute"="C:\\Users\\me\\Vivaldi\\Application\\vivaldi.exe"
Save it as
WebHomeKeyVivaldi.reg
, edit it in Notepad to changeC:\\Users\\me\\Vivaldi
to wherever your Vivaldi installation is, and double-click to merge it. - Removed
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