brunok Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I'm having this weird problem. Every time I try to access any page through the Address bar or Bookmarks or whatever in Internet Explorer, opens instead in Firefox! Even the search in IE's Google toolbar opens in Firefox. Does anybody know what the hell is going on? It's not that I don't like Firefox, I love it, but there are pages that only open properly in IE... Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Try "My Computer" - "Tools" - "Folder Options" - "File Types" and check the associations for HTM and HTML files. Click the advanced button for each and it will bring up a menu which will show the default app for opening that file type. Is Firefox set to be your default internet app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanfarnham Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 For some reason, whenever i click a link in Internet Explorer it opens it up in Mozilla, even if i type a link into the address bar. Does anyone know why this is and how i can fix it? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 IE is trying to please too hard :p You probably set firefox as a default browser for everything, in some regkey or some setting. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanfarnham Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 IE is trying to please too hard :p You probably set firefox as a default browser for everything, in some regkey or some setting. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox? I downloaded the installer and run it hoping it would change settings back but nothing, if i uninstall firefox that would lose all my extensions, themes and layout wouldnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 (edited) I have already tried that but the strange thing is that IE doesn't even ask to "be the default browser" when I set it to be the default in Internet Options... The problem is that whenever I try to open a webpage in IE, it redirects to Firefox, like a music or video file, for example. Firefox has always been the default here, and everything was ok until today... Edit: Ok, I tried uninstalling Firefox, and when I try to open a page in IE it says "No application found"....wtf?? That means IE is really looking for another application to open pages... Edited January 25, 2006 by brunok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 Dude, I have the same problem! Take a look here By the way, did you use IE7 Beta 2 these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanfarnham Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Dude, I have the same problem! Take a look here By the way, did you use IE7 Beta 2 these days? Yeah i did, i tried the one you dont have to install. It kinda sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
low Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Could you have firefox set on default web browser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Having the same problem..... Uninstalling IE7 was my problem.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Sounds like its an IE7 issue, not a Firefox issue. The pitfalls of Beta software. Have you tried rolling back to a restore point before you installed IE7? Might be your only remaining option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 The problem is, I didn't install IE7, so there's no restore point that works (I tried some of them)... There's this way to use IE7 without installing, you just extract the contents of the installer and delete some files, then you just run iexplore.exe. I thought this was the best way to test IE7 because I didn't need to install anything, but it seems that even without installing, IE7 "installed itself" and messed up my system... I really don't know what to do, I tried to reinstall IE6 with some methods around the internet (I'm using WinXP SP2), but it didn't work out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 Could you have firefox set on default web browser? Yes, it's the default here, but that's clearly not the problem, it used to work before and I can't set IE6 as default... Having the same problem.....Uninstalling IE7 was my problem.... If you ever solve this problem, please let me know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Ok, I figured it out! Salgoth, you were almost right...what I had to change were those url:protocol stuff to Internet Explorer open them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 You might mention next time that you're using a beta version of an unreleased browser. It makes a world of difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Ok, I figured it out! Salgoth, you were almost right...what I had to change were those url:protocol stuff to Internet Explorer open them... No problem, hadn't even considered url:protocol. So, I learned something new myself as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 You might mention next time that you're using a beta version of an unreleased browser. It makes a world of difference. I know, but I thought that wasn't relevant because I didn't actually install it...so I thought it wouldn't mess up the rest of the system! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanfarnham Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 brunok, could you explain how to change the url:protocol please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Sure. My Windows is in another language, so maybe my translations aren't very accurate, but I think you can understand it. Open Controle Panel > Folder Options > File types tab And then there should 4 URL:Protocol which are assigned to Firefox: FTP, Gopher, HTTP and HTTP confidencial (probably HTTPS). You'll have to do the following for all of them: select one of the URL:Protocol > Advanced > select open > Edit and in the "Application used to execute the action" field, put Internet Explorer's location, which is probably "c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe" with the quotes (maybe it works without). Then Uncheck "Use DDE" because I have no idea what that is. Everything should be fine now, and once you open Firefox it'll ask to be the default browser, and you can click Yes if you want cause it won't mess up with Internet Explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Sure. My Windows is in another language, so maybe my translations aren't very accurate, but I think you can understand it. Open Controle Panel > Folder Options > File types tab And then there should 4 URL:Protocol which are assigned to Firefox: FTP, Gopher, HTTP and HTTP confidencial (probably HTTPS). You'll have to do the following for all of them: select one of the URL:Protocol > Advanced > select open > Edit and in the "Application used to execute the action" field, put Internet Explorer's location, which is probably "c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe" with the quotes (maybe it works without). Then Uncheck "Use DDE" because I have no idea what that is. Everything should be fine now, and once you open Firefox it'll ask to be the default browser, and you can click Yes if you want cause it won't mess up with Internet Explorer. A couple of problems occured. Now when I click on a link (like my hotmail link), it opens up a windows of internet explorer and then another one which opens up a login page for Passport. Whenever I type a link into Internet Explorer, it opens it up in a new Internet Explorer window, not the current one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 Try setting IE as your default browser to see what happens. I did that before I had set Firefox as default. Or set Firefox as default first and then set IE as default. This is just to clean up the mess in those URL:Protocols. But it seems that now IE is still calling another program to open pages, but this time it's not Firefox, it's IE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanfarnham Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 thats perfect, thanks for your help brunok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 (edited) Try setting IE as your default browser to see what happens. I did that before I had set Firefox as default. Or set Firefox as default first and then set IE as default. This is just to clean up the mess in those URL:Protocols. But it seems that now IE is still calling another program to open pages, but this time it's not Firefox, it's IE... Wierd. Set IE to default and fixed all of those settings and still the same problem. Type in an webpage and it opens it in a new window. Could the %1 have anything to do with it when it was with Firefox? EDIT: If this helps, I set back to Firefox and while doing some tests, I came up with "http://ie.search.msn.com/migrate.asp?SERVER=http://search.msn.com&srch=3&FORM=ASMIG&q=[search word]" whenever I would type a word. Migrate? Interesting.... Edited January 30, 2006 by Eli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunok Posted January 30, 2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 Huh...that's weird... I really don't know what you can do now :( Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coresx Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Yep, I have got the same problem. Went a bit further and removed IE, installed Service pack 2 again hoping it would fill in the blanks but the problem still remains. Did complete cleanout of Firefox as well. Only thing I achieved was IE back as default browser. If I open IE and try and go to an webpage by typing in address bar or through favourites it opens another IE window and does nothing, crashes when I try to close it. At least its not open firefox this time around. So, anyone know a way to solve this because its getting ridiculous. Wish I never tried that IE7 without installing now. I also installed IE7, uninstalled to see if that solved the problem but no luck. Something is really screwed up but I just can't figure out what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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