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On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:47 pm El.Plates <pintsofguinness@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:<g6t1d9$394$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
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>>>>> I have firefox set as default browser. However when I click a link in
>>>>> Outlook or Cirix, it opens in IE, how to change to firefox?
>>>>>
>>>>> WinXP with SP2.
>>>>
>>>> Make sure that Firefox really is set as the default browser. In
>>>> Firefox,
>>>> go
>>>> to Tools->Options and click on the Main tab (Advanced tab in Firefox
>>>> 3), check the "Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on
>>>> startup" box and then click the "Check Now" button. Select "Yes" if it
>>>> reports Firefox is not set up as your default browser.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So what do you think was meant by this then willy "I have firefox set as
>>> default browser"
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>> Certainly not that he should download IE Tab.
> Managed to read that one ok well done, oh and by the way on the FF3
> install doesn't it take care of the default browser question anyway.......
It does ask the question, but people can answer "No" to it. Also, IE can
become the default browser after setting FF as default (all it takes is
answering "Yes" to the wrong prompt) so checking to make sure FF is still
set as default is a good starting point.
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"Had we gone the invasion route [in Iraq], the United States could
conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.
It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren -
outcome." --George H.W. Bush, "A World Transformed"
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