Re: email links open with the wrong browser

From: Ramesh [MVP] (ramesh_at_nojunkmails.com@mvps.org)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:02:24 +0530

Lee,

This tiny utility which I wrote, may be helpful in this case:

Set the default browser for your user profile:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/defaultbrowser.htm 

-- 
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
"Lee Bowman" <lee.bowman@cox.net> wrote in message 
news:4156e755.1963152@msnews.microsoft.com...
Running XP-Pro.  I have three browsers installed:
1)  An old version of Netscape (4.79).  It's setup to retreive one of
the email accts on the Cox server (business), and its Internet
function opens with a particular auction page.
2)  (NEW) Moxilla Firefox (0.9.2).
3)  I.E. (6.2.2800)
I recently installed Firefox, and use it as the primary internet
browser.  If I access a link to a URL from Firefox, it goes there
within Firefox.  (From within I.E., links open in I.E.)
BUT, If I click on a link from elsewhere, e.g. a link in an email (I'm
using Thunderbird for non-business email), or from a Word document, it
pops up the Netscape browser.
Question:  How do I configure XP so that ALL URL links (within an
email or Word document) pop up Firefox, rather than Netscape?
This is what I have done so far, but links still go to Netscape.
I went to:
  'Folder Options',
  'File Types',
Scrolled to:
'HTM file' and 'HTML' file.  Both were set to Netscape, and the
'Change' button brought up a list which included Firefox, so I changed
the settings to Firefox.
I then scrolled to the various URL filetypes (there were 10 listed):
  'Call to Protocol',
  'FTP',
  'Gopher Protocol',
  'HTTP',
  'HTTP w/privacy',
  'IRC protocol',
  'LDAP protocol',
  'RLogin protocol',
  'Telnet protocol', and
  'TN3270 protocol.)
The 2nd, 3rd,4th, & 5th showed a Netscape icon, but the 'Change' box
was ghosted.   The 8th, 9th & 10th showed an I.E. icon, and the
'Change' box was ghosted.
I also noticed that a filetype called 'Internet Shortcut' is currently
set to I.E., with the 'Change' button ghosted.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Lee Bowman