When in FF, multiple IE windows open?

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This has happened twice in a week, not before.
My default for browsing is FF 0.093.
I have IE 5.01SP2 on my hard drive, only used for certain IE-coded pages. It only
runs on demand.

Several times, I have gone to a website, click on a link at that site, and
suddenly multiple IE windows open with no action on my part.

Just now, I went to
http://antiqueradios.com/cgi-bin/fo...estoration+II&number=11&DaysPrune=2&SUBMIT=Go

(Sorry about that).

I clicked on "Contact us" at that site and 30 IE windows suddenly opened. I had to
go offline and manually close them all.

Any idea what is going on?

BTW, how to close multiple windows easily?

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
http://antiqueradios.com/cgi-bin/forums/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum
=Electrical%2FMechanical+Restoration+II&number=11&DaysPrune=2&SUBMIT=Go

I clicked on "Contact us" at that site and 30 IE windows suddenly opened.
Click to expand...

Didn't do that for me (using FF v0.93 like you). The "Contact us" link is
just a normal "mailto:" link, so it would appear your default mail settings
need fixing -- they're probably opening IE for some strange reason.
 
I clicked on "Contact us" at that site and 30 IE windows suddenly opened. I had to
go offline and manually close them all.

Any idea what is going on?

BTW, how to close multiple windows easily?

Mike Sa
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I'd guess that your registry entry -

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command

is set to something like - rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler %l

If you are using Thunderbird as your default client then that entry
should be something like -

"C:\Program Files\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -compose /mailurl:%1

or if you're using Mozilla mail then possibly

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla\bin\mozilla.exe" -quiet -browser "%1"

The multiple IE windows event used to happen to me until I played around
with that registry entry.

There was a thread that related to this at
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news back in Oct 2003 titled "mailto: links
are opening in Netscape 4 instead of Mozilla 1.4". Wish I could give you
the identifier but look for it in Google.
 
..P.B. said:
ms wrote:


http://antiqueradios.com/cgi-bin/forums/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum
=Electrical%2FMechanical+Restoration+II&number=11&DaysPrune=2&SUBMIT=Go



Didn't do that for me (using FF v0.93 like you). The "Contact us" link is
just a normal "mailto:" link, so it would appear your default mail settings
need fixing -- they're probably opening IE for some strange reason.
Click to expand...
Thanks. I only have 2 mail possibilities, Netscape 4.79 which is on demand only,
and a free Softhome account, that I can send mail direct from it, also on demand.

I never got to a mail screen, as just browsing to the URL for "contact us" started
the IE explosion. It seems to me like a browser issue. I wish I could uninstall IE
completely, but there are still IE-coded web pages.
In the past, when I go to a page only readible in IE, it just does not show in FF
or Netscape. No other problems.

It is a strange situation.

Mike Sa
 
charles said:
I'd guess that your registry entry -

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command

is set to something like - rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler %l

If you are using Thunderbird as your default client then that entry
should be something like -

"C:\Program Files\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -compose /mailurl:%1

or if you're using Mozilla mail then possibly

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla\bin\mozilla.exe" -quiet -browser "%1"

The multiple IE windows event used to happen to me until I played around
with that registry entry.

There was a thread that related to this at
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news back in Oct 2003 titled "mailto: links
are opening in Netscape 4 instead of Mozilla 1.4". Wish I could give you
the identifier but look for it in Google.
Click to expand...
Thanks, I'll look into that.

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
This has happened twice in a week, not before.
My default for browsing is FF 0.093.
I have IE 5.01SP2 on my hard drive, only used for certain IE-coded
pages. It only runs on demand.

Several times, I have gone to a website, click on a link at that site,
and suddenly multiple IE windows open with no action on my part.

Just now, I went to
http://antiqueradios.com/cgi-bin/forums/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&
forum=Electrical%2FMechanical+Restoration+II&number=11&DaysPrune=2&SUBM
IT=Go

(Sorry about that).

I clicked on "Contact us" at that site and 30 IE windows suddenly
opened. I had to go offline and manually close them all.

Any idea what is going on?

BTW, how to close multiple windows easily?

Mike Sa
Click to expand...


Mike, I just clicked that link, then the 'Contact us' button using MyIE2,
which is just IE in a pretty wrapper, and it is a simple mailto: link. It
just opened up a new email with Outlook Express on my WinME system.

As suggested by another poster, you seem to have a bad association in
your registry.
 
Reg said:
Mike, I just clicked that link, then the 'Contact us' button using MyIE2,
which is just IE in a pretty wrapper, and it is a simple mailto: link. It
just opened up a new email with Outlook Express on my WinME system.

As suggested by another poster, you seem to have a bad association in
your registry.
Click to expand...

Your looking in IE and OE is the default mail client, so it works fine, and you
proved the mailto link was IE-coded.

But I never ran the default OE in W98SE, it was never my default mail client, and
I uninstalled OE 8 months ago. And IE was not my default browser. Yes, it must be
something in registry.

BTW, the few times I use IE, I also use MyIE2, I like it better than the later
Maxthon.

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
BTW, the few times I use IE, I also use MyIE2, I like it better than
the later Maxthon.

Mike Sa
Click to expand...

I also tried Maxthon, it wasn't stable on my PC, went back to an almost
prfect MyIE2.
 
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