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| Thread ID: 56838 | 2005-04-16 10:02:00 | How? Get Desktop Web Shortcuts to open Firefox, not IE. | braindead (1685) | Press F1 |
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| 345727 | 2005-04-17 06:34:00 | ...well, not entirely :) For some reason, if I already have a Firefox window open, and d/click a new Firefox web shortcut on my desktop, I get this message: "There was a problem sending the command to Windows" . No new window opens. If on the other hand I close all FF windows, then click a shortcut, a FF window will open. Anyone got any ideas on this behaviour? Thank you ~ John |
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| 345728 | 2005-04-17 07:55:00 | As i said above, I went through all the htm & html related files that opened with ie & changed them to firefox. I've had no troubles & firefox opens every time. These are the ones I changed. HTM HTML SHTM SHTML XHT XHTML URL Just highlight them & choose firefox instead of ie as the default application I found this worked for me. The system still uses ie for windows updates. Phil |
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| 345729 | 2005-04-17 08:56:00 | ...and why not make firefox your default browser? I have no problem updating windows with firefox as the default browser. This way you dont have to go 'hacking' Firefox functionality into windows. | sal (67) | ||
| 345730 | 2005-04-17 23:55:00 | Yes - FF is the default browser, and I've tweaked file types. The "There was a problem sending the command to Windows" problem is not a big deal, just a minor annoyance. Thanks for all your help m8s :) | braindead (1685) | ||
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