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View JSON in Internet Explorer

Need to view JSON responses in IE?

  1. Open Notepad and paste the following:
  2. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00;
    ; Tell IE 7,8,9,10 to open JSON documents in the browser on Windows XP and later.
    ; 25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13 is the CLSID for the "Browse in place" .
    ;
    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/json]
    "CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
    "Encoding"=hex:08,00,00,00
  3. Save document as IE-Json.reg and then run it.

Note: This has been tested on Windows XP and Windows 7 using IE 7, 8, 9, 10.

Edit: Thank you to peterennis for testing in IE 10. 

 
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GeneralMy vote of 5
peterennis
10 May '13 - 11:24 
GeneralReason for my vote of 5 short, to the point, and it works!!!
lvaluep
21 Nov '11 - 2:43 

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