How to force opening youtube links from steam forums in default browser not in steam's crappy container?

[pawelex94]

Can someone enlight me why when I open youtube video link by pressing it's title with left/middle click posted on any steam forum it doesn't open in my default firefox browser anymore but instead it redirects to some inner crappy steam's source with no adblock or login credentials? I assume it's because it's related to terrible new Steam UI and there is nothing to change it on our own?
Why nobody else highlighted this issue before?

Let me know thanks

[Jack Schitt]

There's no way to force Steam to use our default browser unless we're viewing the forums using a web browser instead of the Steam Client. Steam will only use Steam's browser for YouTube video links. Options:

1. View the forums in your preferred web browser.
2. When you find a video you want to watch copy/paste that forum topic's URL into your preferred browser, then click on the link at the top left in the video.

There's other ways but the other ways are more steps such as clicking on the link from the Steam Browser then copy/pasting the youtube link from the Steam browser to your preferred browser.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Is Firefox your default browser in Steam?
Are you runnimg windows 7?
mine is Chrome and when clicking on the Watch in Youtube link it goes straight there using my

Are you runnimg windows 7?
Maybe all the Steam hype with Chromium holds a key.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework

[pawelex94]

Ah okay ye I was just surprised as before I could freely open those links normally before new UI update arrived
k will just be copying URLs then so few more clicks to do
And ye firefox is my default browser and im on older OS

so sick of their anti-customer politics this year but well, thanks for answers guys