Firefox

[Guest]

I use firefox for my browser and everytime I launch it, it asks if I want it
to be my default browser which I say yes and it never stays. So everytime I
change it, it continues to ask if I want it. I also can't change the default
in the explorer tools. I can't find any place to change the default
permanently.

I must say, this is a very unfriendly windows product. Hate that I can't
use Outlook Express so now much dump hotmail. A real pain, so much so I want
to install xp and go back to normal nice user interface. UGH!!!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Dont know about Firefox, but Windows Mail is not that different from Outlook
Express, you can also look at a new version called Windows Live Mail, which
you can download:

http://ideas.live.com

Make sure you have the latest version of Firefox which is at version
2.0.0.9, might fix the default issue.

 

[David]

I use firefox for my browser and everytime I launch it, it asks if I want it
to be my default browser which I say yes and it never stays. So everytime I
change it, it continues to ask if I want it. I also can't change the default
in the explorer tools. I can't find any place to change the default
permanently.

I must say, this is a very unfriendly windows product. Hate that I can't
use Outlook Express so now much dump hotmail. A real pain, so much so I want
to install xp and go back to normal nice user interface. UGH!!!

I almost wrote an explanation of how to fix your problem, when i
realized all u wanted to do was bitch. I have my issues with Vista
too, but it's looks are not one of them.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Kris.

Control Panel | Default Programs | Set Program Access and Computer Defaults
| Custom | Choose a default web browser.

Since I' don't have Firefox installed, I don't know what the next step is.
For me, IE is the only option shown.

I don't use Hotmail, but the recently released Windows Live Mail is a big
improvement over the original Windows Mail included in Vista. You can check
it out at:
http://get.live.com/wl/all

You might prefer Windows Live Hotmail, which you can find on that same page.
I can't comment on that since I haven't tried it.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[mayayana]

I use firefox for my browser and everytime I launch it, it asks if I want it
to be my default browser which I say yes and it never stays. So everytime I
change it, it continues to ask if I want it. I also can't change the default
in the explorer tools. I can't find any place to change the default
permanently.

It sounds like a permission issue. Maybe you're
trying to change the setting without sufficient
permission .. in which case Vista would not let
Firefox *actually* change the Registry settings
that it needs to change.

 

[rtk]

Let me guess, trying to install Fx 1.5, right?

2.0.0.9 is fully vista compatible.

rtk

 

[Bill DeShawn]

In which case, Andre probably has the right answer. I'm sure that Microsoft
would never think of messing with somebody else's browser! That would be
dishonest. As we all know, Microsoft is as honest as a republican, uh, a
democrat, no, a libertarian, uh, oh, well, I know, Their honesty is
incomparable.

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_________________________

Bill DeShawn
(e-mail address removed)
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn

 

[mayayana]

Microsoft is as honest as a republican, uh, a

democrat, no, a libertarian, uh, oh, well, I know, Their honesty is
incomparable.

I guess you're right. Their honesty is incomparable
to ... something.

I'm sure that Microsoft
would never think of messing with somebody else's browser!

I came across the latest example of that recently.
The whole MSDN2 site malfunctions for me, with no
scrollbars and the whole page shifted to the right,
with most of it out of view. I have to set View ->
Page Style -> No Style to read their pages. Out of
curiosity I decided to look at the source and found this
near the top:

<!--[if IE]>
<style>
pre { white-space: normal; }
body {overflow-x:auto}
.contentPanel {right:-17px;overflow:scroll ! important;padding: 0px
0px 0px 0px ! important;}
.RightPanel { margin-right:-15px;}
</style><![endif]-->

I didn't examine the full bloat of an MSDN page, with
it's dozen scripts, half dozen CSS files, etc., but it
looks to me like they're removing the scrollbars by
setting no overflow in CSS, and then only adding the
scrollbars back for IE!

I read a couple of weeks ago that MS is considering
going off on their own straight out - without pretending
that they actually support all browsers. The idea is to
have a "compatible with IE" standard in future versions.
It's an interesting reaction, considering that they're losing
browser share steadily and their browser is currently
incompatible even with most currently used versions of
their own OS!