Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:39:30 -0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle...
Ian,
Did you check that file association for "URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol"
that I mentioned? For some reason URL links seem to be a totally different
file association than .htm and .html files.
Matt
>From: "Ian C. Melville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle...
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:40:58 -0800
>
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:32:34 -0400
>From: "Ian C. Melville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle...
>
>Mike,
>
>I think herein lies the problem... NN does in fact ask to be the default as
>does IE but opera is not 'frontish' enough to ask! If it did, i'd say yes
>and it may write the appropriate keys in the registry... Setting its
>preferences to be called for "htm", "html", "ftp" etc doesn't seem to
>actually *register it* as the default browser.
>
>Perhaps its an opera problem and not a win98 one...
>
>Sidebar: Before posting this msg i installed NN 4.75 and allowed it to
>claim
>default browser status but as before once OE is running, IE is king! IE
>doesn't even bother popup the question about not being the default
>browser...
>
>Cheers!
>
>
>Ian C. Melville
>
>FRONTLINE MARKETING AGENCIES
>Trinidad, West Indies
>http://www.frontline.f2s.com
>
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>To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:09:42 -0700 (MST)
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle...
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> >
> >
> > On my desktop I have Netscape 4.08 as my default browser, and
> > occasionally use OE5. Clicking links in news or e-mail starts
> > netscape, not IE. IE has not been removed, and all I did was
> > install Netscape after OE5 was installed, and indicated NS
> > should be the default the first time it asked.
> >
> >
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