Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:43:04 -0800
From: Casey Karp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle...
I haven't worked with OE5 -- I avoid MS software as much as possible -- but
unless OE is doing something nasty, it shouldn't take a registry hack.
Close OE. Launch Opera, and hit Alt-P for the Preference screen. Choose
Default Browser from the list at the left side. Put checkmarks in the
boxes for http, https, and ftp on the bottom part of the screen. Click
OK. Exit Opera, and restart the computer.
Return to Opera and verify that the configuration hasn't changed.
If not, launch OE and try clicking a link in a message. If it loads the
page in Opera, you're all set. If it launches IE, get rid of OE and get a
real mail client. <grin> Seriously, if it does launch IE, it probably
means that Microsoft has hard-coded IE into OE, which would be typical MS
arrogance.
C.
Witty, wise, weird, and wonderful, Ian C. Melville wrote at 06:50 PM 3/5/2001
>I've recently switched to opera 5 as the default browser on my win98 100CT
>but kept IE 5 installed. All the html pages in the windows explorer, dialog
>boxes etc show the opera icon and clicking any html page or email attachment
>launches opera. Good. I'm also using OE5 as my default mail client and
>here's the strange one: when i click on a link from inside an email msg it
>launches IE! I haven't yet figured out a way past this annoyance... Any
>takers?
>
>Smells like maybe a registry hack needed here....
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