• blah.php => active

actually, that was a typo… it’s not active for .php, and I think it should be.

… I might file one

In the mean time, there are many old threads which explain how to re-enable the old-style Run-menu version of “Launch in Chrome” and similar. Here are a few of the recent links.

• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17826/how-to-allow-notepadd-to-launch-in-brave-browser
• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17817/execute-firefox/3
• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17735/updated-to-v7-7-run-menu-no-longer-displays-launch-in/7
• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17554/cannot-run-in-browser/2

I followed your advice but it does not work.
The Chrome, as well as other browsers, can not be activated for some reason.

What is your file named? The “Launch in Chrome” and similar commands are only active for files ending in .html and a few others.

• blah.html => active
• blah.txt => not active
• blah.js => active
• blah.php => active

Personally, I think that feature should be active for all files, not just a select few… or, at the very least, a user-configurable list of extensions. I might go look at the existing issues, and if none have been filed on this, I might file one. (Depends on how much time I have right now, and when the next time I might be at my computer will be.)

I took a screen shot but I don’t know how to attache it here.

Here’s some boilerplate about formatting posts in this forum…

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