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Outlook View in Browser Ignores Default Browser and Opens IE When Office 365 Doesn't Even Support IE
That's an OS level setting, basically you need to change the associations for .MHT/.MHTML file types. Not all browsers expose this as supported file type though, so you might end up needing to change it directly in the registry.
Thank youVasilMichev
the MHT and MHTML settings can only be changed to Edge, not any other browser. I use Opera and Firefox so what is the fix for those browers (I have Opera set as depault browser)?
Malcolmx I wonder if the reason modern browsers don't support this format is because it is so outdated and followed web design principles from about 20 years ago when you had to hard-code styling and use HTML tables and fixed widths. Web technology has moved on but Outlook HTML rendering remains in the past even on the most recent Office 365 versions.
Everytime I have to create an HTML email such as for password resets it reminds me how old-fashioned it is. Perhaps IE is the only browser that still understands this as that too is from the past and should have been replaced years ago.
The best solution would be for Microsoft to switch to a newer rendering format so HTML emails could use responsive layouts and modern standards.
- Totally flabbergasted when this just happened to me. I'm sure I saw a note that IE was dead over the next year.
VasilMichev Thanks I have tried this as didn't realise it was linked to those file types.
Whilst it does switch the browser, it opens them in plain text indicating Edge does not understand this format:
Results in:
Is there a way to get Edge to understand emails or is support coming in the future?
Thanks
Robin
It looks like support for doing this in Chromium was removed a while back...
