Re: Hot link problem

[Ming-Li]

On Friday, December 08, 2000, 3:08:32 PM, John wrote:

> Well, thank you - you pointed me in the right direction.  After
> reading your reply, I remembered that this problem appeared right
> after I had installed Opera 5 (commanding it, of course, not to
> make itself the default browser.

It happened to me again yesterday ago after the installation of
Mozilla 0.6 (or the nightly build, or is it Opera 5? I forgot, for
I've restored my system from backup a few hours later.)

Opera 5 is impressive, but I don't like adware, and I'm not ready to
pay for it due mainly to its poor East Asian languages support. :(

> I tried what worked for you with no luck, and finally just
> reinstalled IE, whereupon everything returned to normal.

Yesterday I used the same trick and it cured it again. Too bad it
didn't work for you.

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Re: Hot link problem

[Dieter Hummel]

Hello Listmembers,

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 at 09:02:22 [GMT -0800] Ming-Li wrote:

> I  suspect it's the newly installed Netscape 6 that broke it (though
> I didn't let Netscape to be my default browser when it asked), but I
> couldn't prove it.

Your   suspect  was  right.  Same  happened  to  me  after  Netscape6
installation. No app was faster removed than scrappy Netscape...

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Dieter

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Re[2]: Hot link problem

[John Sherman]

Hello Ming-Li,

Well, thank you - you pointed me in the right direction.  After
reading your reply, I remembered that this problem appeared right
after I had installed Opera 5 (commanding it, of course, not to make
itself the default browser.

I tried what worked for you with no luck, and finally just reinstalled
IE, whereupon everything returned to normal.  So thanks again, god
knows how long I would have wrestled with it without your help.

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Friday, December 08, 2000, 9:02:22 AM, you wrote:

Ming-Li> On Friday, December 08, 2000, 7:29:20 AM, John wrote:

>>   Yesterday afternoon, after having no trouble at all with links
>>   in emails, I double clicked on a hot link and internet explorer
>>   loaded, but with no address in the address box.  It just sat
>>   there, no throbber action, everything blank, doing nothing. As I
>>   tried some more links, I found that sometimes it would act like
>>   this, and others it would not even load ie at all.

Ming-Li> This happened to me several weeks ago, and I'm trying my best to
Ming-Li> recollect how I solved it.

Ming-Li> ...[thinking really hard]

Ming-Li> Ok, this much I can remember: something in the registry about how
Ming-Li> Windows (or IE) should handle Internet shortcut or about the default
Ming-Li> browser was broken. (Yes, IE was still the default browser, but it
Ming-Li> didn't behave normally, as you described.) IMS, I just ticked the
Ming-Li> "Internet Explorer should check to see if it is the default" option
Ming-Li> (which I usually disable), and restarted IE. Alah, it asked to fix
Ming-Li> something for it's no longer the default browser. I let it fixed,
Ming-Li> and everything's back to normal.

Ming-Li> I thought at first, as you do, that it's TB's fault. Then I found it
Ming-Li> happened when I clicked on links from my newsreader as well. I
Ming-Li> suspect it's the newly installed Netscape 6 that broke it (though I
Ming-Li> didn't let Netscape to be my default browser when it asked), but I
Ming-Li> couldn't prove it.

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Re: Hot link problem

[Ming-Li]

On Friday, December 08, 2000, 7:29:20 AM, John wrote:

>   Yesterday afternoon, after having no trouble at all with links
>   in emails, I double clicked on a hot link and internet explorer
>   loaded, but with no address in the address box.  It just sat
>   there, no throbber action, everything blank, doing nothing. As I
>   tried some more links, I found that sometimes it would act like
>   this, and others it would not even load ie at all.

This happened to me several weeks ago, and I'm trying my best to
recollect how I solved it.

...[thinking really hard]

Ok, this much I can remember: something in the registry about how
Windows (or IE) should handle Internet shortcut or about the default
browser was broken. (Yes, IE was still the default browser, but it
didn't behave normally, as you described.) IMS, I just ticked the
"Internet Explorer should check to see if it is the default" option
(which I usually disable), and restarted IE. Alah, it asked to fix
something for it's no longer the default browser. I let it fixed,
and everything's back to normal.

I thought at first, as you do, that it's TB's fault. Then I found it
happened when I clicked on links from my newsreader as well. I
suspect it's the newly installed Netscape 6 that broke it (though I
didn't let Netscape to be my default browser when it asked), but I
couldn't prove it.

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Hot link problem

[John Sherman]

Hello TBUDL,

  This problem just appeared mysteriously (which means, of course,
  that I just don't know how it happened).

  Yesterday afternoon, after having no trouble at all with links in
  emails, I double clicked on a hot link and internet explorer loaded,
  but with no address in the address box.  It just sat there, no
  throbber action, everything blank, doing nothing. As I tried some
  more links, I found that sometimes it would act like this, and
  others it would not even load ie at all.

  This morning I downloaded and install the beta 4.8, build 10,
  thinking maybe this would fix it.  No such luck.

  Any ideas?

  tia

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