Default browser problem myIE/Firefox/GB/Maxthon... (clean install? No way :-( )

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R. L.

Ok, here is what I found. I just switched to Firefox.
However, for both MyIE or GreenBrowser, my experiences are the
same: if you are/have been using MyIE or GreenBrowser, if you
EVER set it as default, even after you "reset" it, some entry
wouldn't let go and still remain there causing problem.

I switched to Firefox and found that the associations got so
massed up and hard to spot out where the problems were because
whenever you set a browser as default, it involved plenty of
registry keys and they did NOT all get set back as it had been
before (sad! I am not sure even Firefox would did this right,
either). And I am guessing that some people could perhaps find
the same problems with switching to Maxthon. In addition, in
some case, the freeware tool "setbrowser" won't work, depend
on how messed up the associations are (it didn't work with my
XP)

Here is what I did to *truely* have a clean up before
installing a browser with a different name. First, I reset the
setting in GreenBrowser. Then, I got IE to reset itself.
Then, use Regseeker (www.hoverdesk.net), and search for the
name of the browser you want to ditch (I found a bunch of of
useless entries in the file association parts). Then delete
all of them. Then I install my new browser and use my new
browser to set itself to default and finally got Firefox 9.2
to work :-(












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Shame you weren't here about a week ago. I went through the same grief and
posted a solution nearly identical to yours.

I liked some features of MyIE, but was so turned off by the experience of
trying to remove it that I don't think I'd ever give it a re-try. . .

M
 
Shame you weren't here about a week ago. I went through the
same grief and posted a solution nearly identical to yours.
Click to expand...
I liked some features of MyIE, but was so turned off by the
experience of trying to remove it that I don't think I'd
ever give it a re-try. . .

M
Click to expand...

hmm, I think I miss that .. you know how much traffic we have
here. I knew MyIE was like that and GreenBrowser was ok with
IE (i.e., no problem after IE set itself as default, so in
this sense, GB is better than MyIE). However, not until I
start to install Firefox and find that it does strange thing
to the Firefox installation and check the registry. Things
never really got cleanup well :-( Sad enough, both programs
have a message saying "click no to reset to default", but they
aren't serious about it!



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