In case it wasn't clear, in my last post, this is a BUG in your software. Please look into it.

The "Open Published Website" feature doesn't interpret the path correctly, probably because the term "root" has two meanings in your software. The "Open Published Website" feature thinks it's the Web Server HTML content root, whereas, the Publish tool thinks it means the Server File System root.

VSD is not an html editor for experienced coders, and as such it is DESIGNED to operate in a simplified way, if it were NOT i would not have managed to produce any websites at all.

This is a user to user forum, if you believe you have found a BUG, i suggest you put in a support ticket and discuss it with CC start directly.

Where do you get this or see this dialog?

This dialog is for viewing a site published to S-Drive.
My browsers always open anyways so switching to my browser to view a non S-Drive site really is a simple task and the one I prefer.