How to change the default Help browser for VS2010?

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Published on 2010-04-20T17:37:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 22:28 UTC
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Visual Studio 2010 changed the help system to run a little daemon and launch the system default web browser to view it.

I'm using Firefox for my system browser but would like to use Chrome for VS help.

Is there an option to change the Help browser that I'm not seeing in Tools|Options? If not, is there a workaround or registry setting to do this?

As a backup I've been using H3Viewer but I'd like to be able to get context-sensitive F1 help from within the VS IDE.

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