customizing / modifying a favorites url

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I am needing to know if anyone knows how to customize a favorites url so as
to be able to specify which browser the url it to opened with.

I know I've seen the url set up with the .exe in it to specify which browser
to use, I just can't seem to find any info on it on the web.

I am currently having to support varying versions of browsers across the
apple, linux and windows platforms, and it makes it a little easier when I
have to open browser specific sites to set the favorites url to open using
the preferred browser.
 
Hi,
Right-click the Internet Shortcut> Properties, modify the Target to include
the path to the browser's exe file.
Example:
A target of http://www.yahoo.com
becomes
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" www.yahoo.com
or
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" www.yahoo.com
Note a space between EXE" and ww

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

"michael" wrote in message
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Hi Michael,

This is accomplished by creating a LNK (shortcut) rather than using the URL
type (Internet Shortcuts). Create a shortcut to iexplore.exe on the Desktop.
Right-click the newly created shortcut and change the Target field
accordingly:

Examples:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" www.msn.com
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" www.google.com

Ref my post here:
Browser Issues: Firefox is my default. How do I create a shortcut to launch
a pgm in IE.:
http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com:8080/Web/Browser_Issues/Q_21388089.html

Alternately, you should be able to add additional context-menu for .URL
files, to open them in another browser. (Example: "open with maxthon"
context-menu would open the link in Maxthon)
 
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