Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:49:59 -0400 From: "Ian C. Melville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle... [another twist] Casey, It gets better... Trapping the call by having opera running intrugued me--because this type of 'trap' does in fact work with netobjects 5 on my desktop--so i immediately tried it and got some amazing results! I decided to enable the option in IE5 to warn if its not the default browser and while OE is running clicking on links in a mail msg starts IE without a fuss (even clicking on IE's desktop icon launches it without any fuss). But get this: if i close OE and then click on IE it *now* pops up the warning about not being the default browser....!? Its almost as bizarre as the bermuda triangle :-) Ken's registry hack is coming closer and closer... Regards, Ian C. Melville FRONTLINE MARKETING AGENCIES Trinidad, West Indies http://www.frontline.f2s.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Karp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Off Topic: Browser riddle... > Ian, sorry to hear it. > > It sounds like Microsoft decided that if you're using OE, you can't > possibly want to use any other browser than IE, so they hard-coded OE to > use IE instead of the default browser... > > Does it make any difference if Opera is already running when you click a > link? When I used Netscape with IE as the default browser, NS would trap > the call to the default browser if it was running. > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
