Windows Vista Vista and default browsers

[Taffycat]

Firefox (version 2.0.0.3) is the default browser on my Vista PC, but certain links that I click on, bring up IE7. I changed all the appropriate settings to make Firefox the default (and that is normally enough on the XP PCs, which never produce the same phenomenon) so, is this a quirk of Vista do we know?

The website links that seem to produce IE7 include BOINC and Yahoo - it is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered whether this was happening to anyone else please?

Thank you

 

[muckshifter]

Actually, I have the revers 'problem' to you ... I primarily use IE7 and on the very odd occasion, well only one, when I use a link in Spy Sweeper up pops Firefox ... most annoying.

I know how to 'fix' my problem ... uninstall Firefox.


Now I bet that surprised a lot of you ...

I must have a dig around now I see someone else with this err, hiccup.

 

[Taffycat]

Ooh Mucks, you're surely not being a traitor to good 'ol Firefox? Still, it's helpful to know that this happens to others and isn't just me

 

[muckshifter]

Ooh Mucks, you're surely not being a traitor to good 'ol Firefox?

Still, it's helpful to know that this happens to others and isn't just me

Nope, I ain't a traitor, just using the best tool for the job ...

OK, you ain't alone, there are hundreds out there with the same 'problem' as yourself.

Try this ...

go to ... Start / Control Panel / Programs / Default Programs

now click ... Set your Default Programs ... Click on Firefox & click Choose defaults for this program ... click all the boxes.


A little word ... this may still not "fix" your problems, IE7 is intertwined into Vista.

 

[Taffycat]

Oh I'm sorry Mucks, I should have said in my original post, that I've done that also .... didn't work though As for the IE7 entwining, I sort-of wondered whether that might be the cast. Oh well, not to worry... I guess IE7 deserves a "turn" now and again Thank you Mucks

 

[muckshifter]

oh, sorry, I will do a more in-depth search the morrow ... but I think, from my initial findings, that IE7 will pop up from time to time anyway.


It may be persuaded to go to sleep though.



You may think I was joking about now only using IE7, but I have found it as good as, if not slightly better, than FF ... not that will twist anybodies arms here though.

 

[Taffycat]

I think IE7 is a happier bunny in Vista and I don't really mind using it now and then, on that machine. I found it a bit more hit-and-miss on the XP PCs - on XP-Pro, I've had to revert to IE6, but on XP-Home, it works happily enough. Strange that. But it was really just curiosity that motivated me to ask my original question ........ and you know what curiosity did to cats!!