In Photoshop's “Save for Web” dialog, at the bottom right (to the left of the “Edit in ImageReady” button) is a drop-down “Select Browser” menu. It's one of those things most people don't normally pay any attention to. If left as the default, with no browsers in the list, I have the problem previously described. Once I put Firefox in that list (whether I make it the default previewer or not) my problems are solved. I would guess it's because I don't have the Firefox application in the main Applications directory with the other browsers and Photoshop wasn't able to locate the application on its own.
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Thanks so much for this tip! It was driving me insane...
Posted by: arcady | March 26, 2005 at 04:37 AM
Thanks. This was driving me nuts too.
Posted by: djn1 | March 29, 2005 at 02:32 PM
Great tip. This was a dealbreaker of a problem.
Posted by: woohoo | May 07, 2005 at 12:41 AM
Hi, great thanks for that.
I've just spent the last hour trying to work out why photoshop wouldn't save for web and did a search on google, found this straight away and it works!
Posted by: calls4u | September 03, 2005 at 04:07 PM
Thanks that worked for me!
Posted by: Sweet! | September 15, 2005 at 12:14 PM
HOLY thank you. I was going crazy. Even throwing away my Adobe Save For Web 8.0 Prefs did not fix this problem -- or the entire preferences folder for that matter. Your solution did it though.
Posted by: canton | November 09, 2005 at 03:39 PM
THANK YOU ! spent half a day trying to solve it. But I can't figure how it comes that these two things are connected. Very weird...
Posted by: Bruno | January 17, 2006 at 03:37 AM
you rock! i was frustrated in figuring that out
Posted by: cindy | February 15, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Hey there - I am unsure as to 'where' the save for web dialog can be found?
I think my 'preferences have been deleted from the library by mistake) so when I open an image in photoshop cs I only have the option (under file) for
edit in image ready, import, close, save as, automate etc - save for web isn't illuminated. Anyone have ANY ideas???
Posted by: jamie h | November 06, 2007 at 05:20 AM
Hey there - I am unsure as to 'where' the save for web dialog can be found?
I think my 'preferences have been deleted from the library by mistake) so when I open an image in photoshop cs I only have the option (under file) for
edit in image ready, import, close, save as, automate etc - save for web isn't illuminated. Anyone have ANY ideas???
Posted by: jamie h | November 06, 2007 at 05:20 AM
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Posted by: tero thauko | December 13, 2007 at 08:43 PM
Wow, that worked...but I don't get why randomly it started doing this last night. Anyway,thank you!
Posted by: Amy | February 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM
You do certainly rock.
Posted by: theshunter | March 09, 2009 at 08:38 PM