Browser not launching with BrowserSync or live-server

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Roberto Mora picture Roberto Mora · Mar 9, 2017 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I've been using live-server with VS Code to debug some web pages. Everything was fine, I ran live-server from my command line in the page directory and Chrome opened a new tab with the page.

Then suddenly it stopped working! I though it was a bit weird so I installed Nodejs again and an issue appeared afterwards. The server is working but it isn't able to open Chrome (nor any other Browser)

I tried using BrowserSync instead of live-server and again, the server works but it isn't able to automatically open Chrome

I can always manually type http://localhost:3000 but I shouldn't (since it worked before)

I've tried uninstalling and installing both live-server and browserSync, Chrome. Flushing my dns, checking for malware, checking if Windows Firewall is blocking anything related, and some other things that hadn't done anything for me, I still get the:

Couldn't open browser (if you are using BrowserSync in a headless environment, you might want to set the open option to false)

as seen here

Can someone please tell me what could be causing this issue or how should I attempt to fix it?

Answer

Roberto Mora picture Roberto Mora · Mar 16, 2017

The problem occurred because somehow C:\Windows\System32 was not in the System Path Variable. I just added it again, restarted the computer and it works fine again

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