firefox hijacked my icons!

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Phlatt Chu Lantz

I installed firefox...didn't like it, uninstalled it. I'm having a
lingering problem where any html links on my desktop have the firefox icon
instead of IE. How can I get rid of this firefox icon and get my IE icon
back? I've gone into properties and told it that IE should check to see if
it's the default. I've also gone into folder view options and checked to
see if html's are associated with the IE icon...which they were. I've also
searched regedit for 'mozilla' as well as 'firefox' and removed the 20 some
entries left behind after the uninstall. Any suggestions on how to fix
this? Thanks.
 
I installed firefox...didn't like it, uninstalled it. I'm
having a lingering problem where any html links on my
desktop have the firefox icon instead of IE. How can I get
rid of this firefox icon and get my IE icon back? I've
gone into properties and told it that IE should check to
see if it's the default. I've also gone into folder view
options and checked to see if html's are associated with
the IE icon...which they were. I've also searched regedit
for 'mozilla' as well as 'firefox' and removed the 20 some
entries left behind after the uninstall. Any suggestions
on how to fix this? Thanks.
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Good places to ask .. nicely ;)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=7
or
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38


J
 
Phlatt said:
I installed firefox...didn't like it, uninstalled it. I'm having a
lingering problem where any html links on my desktop have the firefox icon
instead of IE. How can I get rid of this firefox icon and get my IE icon
back? I've gone into properties and told it that IE should check to see if
it's the default. I've also gone into folder view options and checked to
see if html's are associated with the IE icon...which they were. I've also
searched regedit for 'mozilla' as well as 'firefox' and removed the 20 some
entries left behind after the uninstall. Any suggestions on how to fix
this?
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First I would suggest reinstalling Firefox and looking at the available
'extensions' which make it an infinitely customiseable browser and
streets ahead of IE in all respects.

As for your problem, you probably have to go through your 'file types'
options if resetting IE as default browser does not work. You could try
Googling for SetBrowser to see if this is any help.

It took me a long time to reset my default browser from Opera to
Firefox; SetBrowser did not work and I had to spend a boring time in the
'file types' options.
 
jo said:
First I would suggest reinstalling Firefox and looking at the available
'extensions' which make it an infinitely customiseable browser and
streets ahead of IE in all respects.

As for your problem, you probably have to go through your 'file types'
options if resetting IE as default browser does not work. You could try
Googling for SetBrowser to see if this is any help.

It took me a long time to reset my default browser from Opera to
Firefox; SetBrowser did not work and I had to spend a boring time in the
'file types' options.
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File types shows the IE icon as the standard icon for html's, however the ff
icon is what shows on my desktop.
 
I installed firefox...didn't like it, uninstalled it. I'm having a
lingering problem where any html links on my desktop have the firefox
icon instead of IE. How can I get rid of this firefox icon and get my
IE icon back? I've gone into properties and told it that IE should
check to see if it's the default. I've also gone into folder view
options and checked to see if html's are associated with the IE
icon...which they were. I've also searched regedit for 'mozilla' as
well as 'firefox' and removed the 20 some entries left behind after
the uninstall. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks.
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Maybe Windows has the icon cached .....
If you have TweakUI installed, then rebuild shelliconcache. If not, then
use your boot disk to boot to a command line, navigate to c:\windows and
delete the file C:\WINDOWS\ShellIconCache
Then boot normally again and windows will recreate the icon cache.

If the Firefox icon remains then you still have registry entries associated
with firefox.

You could also check Control Panel/Folder Options, File Types tab and check
the file associations of html and htm files.
 
Phlatt Chu Lantz said:
I installed firefox...didn't like it, uninstalled it. I'm having a
lingering problem where any html links on my desktop have the firefox icon
instead of IE.
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Then you installed it as your standard browser. You can use the
Eplorer's file types settings ("Advanced") change the icon for url and
htm(l), or use File Association Editor, which you'll have to search
for as it is no longer available here:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/fileasoc.html
for reasons unknown to me.

Frank
 
elaich said:
So delete the icons and restablish them using IE.
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In folder view options they were already set with the IE icon. I've tried
right-clicking on the desktop icon and setting a couple of them manually,
but they revert back to the ff icon. I went through regedit and deleted
about 20 some odd entries for mozilla and ff which were left behind when I
uninstalled ff. I'm STILL getting the ff icon. If I could find the
frigging icon on my hard drive I'd delete the damn thing.
 
In folder view options they were already set with the IE icon. I've tried
right-clicking on the desktop icon and setting a couple of them manually,
but they revert back to the ff icon. I went through regedit and deleted
about 20 some odd entries for mozilla and ff which were left behind when I
uninstalled ff. I'm STILL getting the ff icon. If I could find the
frigging icon on my hard drive I'd delete the damn thing.
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Just wondering if you uninstalled firefox while it was the default
browser?.Sometimes it can cause problems if an applications uninstalled
thats a default.Try reinstalling firefox then make IE default before
uninstalling firefox again.
me
 
bassbag said:
Just wondering if you uninstalled firefox while it was the default
browser?.Sometimes it can cause problems if an applications uninstalled
thats a default.Try reinstalling firefox then make IE default before
uninstalling firefox again.
me
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I'll try that, but I don't recall ever setting ff as default.
 
FossilButt said:
File types shows the IE icon as the standard icon for html's, however
the ff icon is what shows on my desktop.
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Ummm, doesn't that give you a clue that HTML is the wrong thing to be
checking? An HTML document is just that - a document.

Try checking "Internet Shortcut". Also, maybe the various URLs.

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jo said:
It took me a long time to reset my default browser from Opera to
Firefox; SetBrowser did not work and I had to spend a boring time in the
'file types' options.
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There was an advantage for me in going Netscape 4.7/Firebird/Firefox, it worked
out of the box, except for bookmarks. FF can't handle a large bookmark file,
anything over maybe 400 bookmarks. Mine is that size as it was my Netscape file
for years.

I am using FF 093. Can't understand in such a nice browser, origins from Netscape,
how they overlooked that and don't fix it, because people that browse the net
build up a large file. I raised that on the forum several times, no solution.

Mike Sa
 
dadiOH said:
Ummm, doesn't that give you a clue that HTML is the wrong thing to be
checking? An HTML document is just that - a document.

Try checking "Internet Shortcut". Also, maybe the various URLs.
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Yes...I went through the entire list in the file assoc's...twice...looking
for anything remotely connected with that type of thing. Should I mention
this is on WXPH? I think it should be called the QOS - Quirky OS.
 
ms said:
There was an advantage for me in going Netscape 4.7/Firebird/Firefox, it worked
out of the box, except for bookmarks. FF can't handle a large bookmark file,
anything over maybe 400 bookmarks. Mine is that size as it was my Netscape file
for years.

I am using FF 093. Can't understand in such a nice browser, origins from Netscape,
how they overlooked that and don't fix it, because people that browse the net
build up a large file. I raised that on the forum several times, no
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solution.

Three things that turned me off from ff right from the get-go was that it
didn't import all my IE bookmarks, it was slower loading and moving from
site to site than IE, and the initial interface in ff is really ugly...kind
of cartoonish-looking. The fact that Add/Remove Programs from the Control
Panel still left alot of "remnants" of ff in the registry was just one more
reason I didn't want it.
 
There was an advantage for me in going Netscape 4.7/Firebird/Firefox, it worked
out of the box, except for bookmarks. FF can't handle a large bookmark file,
anything over maybe 400 bookmarks. Mine is that size as it was my Netscape file
for years.
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Mine is at least ten times that, and Firefox handles it just fine :-)
 
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