Re: 2003 and Double Browser Windows

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From: SEISupport (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:24:54 -0700

Hi there,

The link you are looking for is:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=580932

It's an error in the way that FireFox registers. I
suggest disabling the DDE - cleaner, because you don't
have to edit the DDE string.

Hope that helps,
Mark

>-----Original Message-----
>Since it works for IE and Netscape had the same issue as
you described; Time
>to ask in a FireFox newsgroup?
>
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>www.howto-outlook.com
>
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>-----
>"Mike Koch" <mikey@NOSPAMebgames.com> wrote in message
>news:euE6BEWWEHA.1368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> I'm getting the same thing here.
>>
>> With Firefox set as my default browser, when I clicked
on a link in
>> Outlook
>> 2003, I'd get a browser window with the selected link
loaded, PLUS a
>> "Locate
>> Link Browser" dialog box. That was going on for the
past couple of days.
>>
>> Today, when that dialog box showed up, I pointed it at
the Firefox
>> executable. Ever since then, whenever I click on a link
in Outlook 2003,
>> Firefox opens two copies of the target page.
>>
>> I tried switching my default browser back to IE, which
opens only one page
>> per link. Then I switched back to Firefox, and it still
opens two pages
>> for
>> each link.
>>
>> If anyone has hint at where to fix this, I'd be very
grateful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>> "Daniel Short" <dan@wittyremark.web-shorts.com> wrote
in message
>> news:eMOK9SXVEHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Yep, I *always* get the double browser if I complete
the Locate Link
>> Browser
>>> dialog. If I don't, then I always get the dialog...
either way I end up
>> with
>>> a window or dialog I don't want :)
>>>
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