Internet Explorer shortcut opening Firefox.


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Been having this issue for a few days now, ever since I installed IE Tab on Firefox, where if I click on my IE shortcut in the taskbar or Start screen, it starts Firefox instead.

I have no idea what's happening and I'd like to fix this since having to go in program files everytime I want to watch a Youtube video at 60FPS is getting kind of annoying.

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Been having this issue for a few days now, ever since I installed IE Tab on Firefox, where if I click on my IE shortcut in the taskbar or Start screen, it starts Firefox instead.

I have no idea what's happening and I'd like to fix this since having to go in program files everytime I want to watch a Youtube video at 60FPS is getting kind of annoying.

 

So if you make a shortcut to Iexplore.exe it opens firefox?

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Firefox is my default browser, tried resetting it has default a bunch of times, no go. Uninstalling Firefox and making IE default ends up with the IE shortcut asking me what to do with it (like when you try opening an unknown file type).

 

So if you make a shortcut to Iexplore.exe it opens firefox?

 

No, only the default ones or when I pin IE to the taskbar.

 

Where did you download this copy of IETab from?

What happens if you hit Win + R and launch iexplore.exe?

What happens if you create a new shortcut to iexplore.exe?

 

Firefox addon's website. I've actually uninstalled it since, since I wanted it for 60FPS YT but it didn't work.

 

Works fine.

 

Also works.

 

I could just remake the shortcuts, but these kinds of nagging issues are things that really annoy me. I was hoping maybe someone had ran into this issue before and could tell me how to fix it.

What I've tried so far besides these things is, uninstalling/reinstall IE, downloading backups of the shortcuts, making a new Windows profile (works fine) and what I described earlier in this post.

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Well, I figured it out on my own. Decided to have a little look in the registry and sure enough, something at some point created an entry in HKCU\Software\Classes\ called "Microsoft.InternetExplorer.Default" and pointed it to Firefox, which made the default IE shortcut open Firefox. Weird stuff.

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