links open the wrong browser

[beau.leemanREMOVE]

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) Mozilla 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

 

[Joe Guidera]

Have you tried using the "Set program access and defaults" icon on the start
menu?

 

[Alex Nichol]

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.

If you set up in Firefox, Tools - Options, General page and click 'Check
now' it should set up the normal registered associations. But a third
party program like Thunderbird probably has its own settings in its
Options for which to use.

Also you may have to make a change in Netscape's own prefs.js file to
stop it grabbing the associations back whenever you load it