Everytime I click on a link from within Mac, parallels boots up my Windows VM and opens the link there

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Published on 2012-10-12T08:41:22Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 9:41 UTC
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Everytime I click on a link from within Mac, parallels boots up my Windows VM and opens the link there. That's super annoying and I haven't found a configuration to change it.

In the settings of my Windows VM there is an option where to launch the webbrowser. However that seems to only affect links that I open from within my Windows session.

UPDATE

I just stumbled across this answer:

How to disassociate a file type with an application in Mac OS

So I disabled "share windows apps with mac" completely. Also this seems to be overly protective it at least does the trick. I think it also deactivates that running windows apps show up in the dock but I don't care that much about that anyway.

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