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Re: Building Physicist rick++ 02-29-2008
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on March 3, 2008, 10:18 am
HVS wrote:
> On 03 Mar 2008, Michael Bulatovich wrote
>
>> HVS wrote:
>>> On 02 Mar 2008, ++ wrote
>>>
>>>> Since you and Rusty seem to be knowledgeable about browsers,
>>>> perhaps you can solve my problem. In thunderbird, clicking on
>>>> a URL no longer results in being brought into Firefox to that
>>>> site. Now I am stuck with tedious cut and paste
>>>
>>> The link is a Windows registry rather than a program-specific
>>> thing -- "all links open in X", rather than "Thunderbird points
>>> to browser X".
>>>
>>> Have you inadvertently "unmade" Firefox as your default
>>> browser? (Or Windows might have done it all on its own; it
>>> sometimes likes to screw around with your head like that, just
>>> for fun...)
>>>
>>> Try unregistering Firefox and then re-designating it as your
>>> default. (Open Internet Explorer and make that your default;
>>> then open FF; have it check if it's the default again --
>>> Tools>Options>General; close it; and try a link from
>>> Thunderbird.)
>>>
>>> If that doesn't work, I know of a freebie utility that forces
>>> the default to be made which might be worth a last-ditch try.
>>
>> Historian *and* IT guy! How do you spell renaissance?
>
> I spell it "S-E-L-F-E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-D". :))

: D



Posted by ++ on March 3, 2008, 1:40 pm


HVS wrote:

>On 02 Mar 2008, ++ wrote
>
>
>
>>Since you and Rusty seem to be knowledgeable about browsers,
>>perhaps you can solve my problem. In thunderbird, clicking on a
>>URL no longer results in being brought into Firefox to that
>>site. Now I am stuck with tedious cut and paste
>>
>>
>
>The link is a Windows registry rather than a program-specific thing
>-- "all links open in X", rather than "Thunderbird points to browser
>X".
>
>Have you inadvertently "unmade" Firefox as your default browser? (Or
>Windows might have done it all on its own; it sometimes likes to
>screw around with your head like that, just for fun...)
>
>Try unregistering Firefox and then re-designating it as your default.
>(Open Internet Explorer and make that your default; then open FF;
>have it check if it's the default again -- Tools>Options>General;
>close it; and try a link from Thunderbird.)
>
>
>

Problem is, I deleted Internet Explorer, I did dislike it so. I kept
Outlook Express.

>If that doesn't work, I know of a freebie utility that forces the
>default to be made which might be worth a last-ditch try.
>
>

Where can I find Mr. ultility?


Posted by HVS on March 3, 2008, 4:47 pm
On 03 Mar 2008, ++ wrote

> Problem is, I deleted Internet Explorer, I did dislike it so. I
> kept Outlook Express.

If you've actually *deleted* Internet Explorer (rather than just
the desk-top links to it), you've almost certainly broken your
Windows installation.

(IE is deeply, deeply embedded in Windows; you'd have to have used
something like XPLite to rip it out, and it sounds like that's
probably not the case.)

So ocheck on your machine for this file:

Program Files>Internet Exporer>iexplore.exe

If you find it, IE's still there (but just hidden) -- s0 either
click on it to open it directly, or right-click and choose "Send"
to put a shortcut on your desktop to open it later.

>> If that doesn't work, I know of a freebie utility that forces
>> the default to be made which might be worth a last-ditch try.

> Where can I find Mr. ultility?

There are two of them; the one I used some years ago was

http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/setbrowser/

This one's also recommended by the Firefox people:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultbrowser.htm

And this is an article on the Mozilla/Firefox support people which
will tell you *way* way more than you really want to know about
setting the default:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Force_Firefox_to_make_its
elf_the_default

HTH.

--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian



Posted by ++ on March 3, 2008, 4:51 pm
Thanks ever so much. Will read it all.I already tried removing Firefox
as my default and then going back in and choosing it as my default again
but it returned the message that dispite my effforts to undefault it,
that is was my default.

HVS wrote:

>On 03 Mar 2008, ++ wrote
>
>
>
>>Problem is, I deleted Internet Explorer, I did dislike it so. I
>>kept Outlook Express.
>>
>>
>
>If you've actually *deleted* Internet Explorer (rather than just
>the desk-top links to it), you've almost certainly broken your
>Windows installation.
>
>(IE is deeply, deeply embedded in Windows; you'd have to have used
>something like XPLite to rip it out, and it sounds like that's
>probably not the case.)
>
>So ocheck on your machine for this file:
>
>Program Files>Internet Exporer>iexplore.exe
>
>If you find it, IE's still there (but just hidden) -- s0 either
>click on it to open it directly, or right-click and choose "Send"
>to put a shortcut on your desktop to open it later.
>
>
>
>>>If that doesn't work, I know of a freebie utility that forces
>>>the default to be made which might be worth a last-ditch try.
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>>Where can I find Mr. ultility?
>>
>>
>
>There are two of them; the one I used some years ago was
>
>http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/setbrowser/
>
>This one's also recommended by the Firefox people:
>
>http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultbrowser.htm
>
>And this is an article on the Mozilla/Firefox support people which
>will tell you *way* way more than you really want to know about
>setting the default:
>
>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Force_Firefox_to_make_its
>elf_the_default
>
>HTH.
>
>
>


Posted by HVS on March 3, 2008, 4:58 pm
On 03 Mar 2008, ++ wrote

> Thanks ever so much. Will read it all.I already tried removing
> Firefox as my default and then going back in and choosing it as
> my default again but it returned the message that dispite my
> effforts to undefault it, that is was my default.

I suspect that you'll have to either get some other bully-boy program
(like IE) to claim default rights, or to use one of those utilities.

This whole process may not solve the Thunderbrid problem, of course,
but the process worked for me a few years ago when I had a very
similar problem.


--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian



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