Some time ago, there was a post about using Firefox as the default browser for the HTML Report Viewer in Pipeline Pilot:
https://community.accelrys.com/message/2632#2632
Jeremy and Pierre also had a discussion about Opera and Google Chrome
https://community.accelrys.com/message/5911#5911
I coincidentally tried the same trick as described in the the first discussion above (using "FirefoxHTML" to launch Firefox on the component labeled "Launch Browser" inside the HTML Report Viewer) with Chrome.
By default, the viewer entitles reports like "HTML Report1.htm", where the number after the "Report" will get incremented for every viewer in your protocol (unless you specify a title). When I put
ChromeHTML \$(ServerFilePath)
on the Launch Browser component, Chrome launched two tabs and tried to load both
and
Adding a Custom Manipulator just above Launch Browser and including the following PilotScript in the Expression parameter fixed the problem:
@ServerFilePath := URLEncode(@ServerFilePath);
HTML Report Viewer (Chrome) component attached.
NOTE: this component is for Pipeline Pilot version 8.0
