Re: How do I set browser used to open links within OE messages/posts??

Glad you found a fix. Sounds like a problem with the file association for HTML files not being properly set on first install.

Thanks for the feedback.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
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"ggull" <ggullSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%2386qxpVaFHA.3032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the quick response.
Unfortunately, the microsoft links seem quite specific to using IE as the
browser, and hard to generalize to another browser.
I did try the suggestion on the Frank Saunders page.
It was hard to tell exactly what path it was using (it was in the format
MSDOS uses for long directory names, <C:\PROGA~1\MOZILL~2 ....>.
So (after creating a restoration point :-) I browsed to the correct Firefox.
This didn't correct the problem -- Firefox would still come up when clicking
on links within the browser, or on HTML files on my drive, but still nothing
happened when I clicked on links in OE. So I restored to the point I saved.

After uninstalling and installing Firefox again, I stumbled across a setting
in a place I hadn't expected (can't remember now what clued me to). For the
benefit of other seekers: Tools>Options>General, Default Browser, and it
turned out that during the install Firefox had become no longer the default
browser. I did the obvious, and problem solved ....

.....  though why it still was default to open HTML files is a puzzle.  I
guess that's different from 'default browser'.

"Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote ... 
See if this link helps fix it:

You cannot open a new Internet Explorer window or nothing occurs after you
click a link:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

OLEXP: "Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work w. Outlook Express:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306098

Also might want to see this information from Frank Saunders, MVP-Outlook
Express:

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to URL:HyperText Transfer  Protocol and select it.
Click Edit or Advanced, depending on your Windows version.
Select 'open'.
Click Edit.

"Application used to perform this action" should read:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" -nohome
(Check the path to iexplore.exe to make sure that is correct and use the
double quotes.)

DDE should be checked and in the boxes below it you should have:

#1:
"%1",,-1,0,,,,
#2
IExplore
#3 (blank)

#4
WWW_OpenURL

URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy should be the same.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6 
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"ggull" <ggullSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
> OE 6.0, Win Me
>
> I've been Firefox as a browser, and when I recently upgraded kept the
old
> version in its directory (just in case):
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
> and installing the new one in a new directory
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 104
>
> The association for html files seems to have been correctly reset to > use
> the
> new version -- they open with Firefox 1.04 when double clicked.
>
> But when I click on a link in an OE message/post, it tries to bring up
the
> old version of Firefox, which generates an error message (old FF > doesn't
> seem to like sharing).
>
> How can I set browser used by OE? I've tried the help file,
> Format/Options,
> and anything that looks like it might be useful, to no avail. Even if > I
> screwed up by retaining the old browser, I should be able to reset this
> manually.
>
>




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