I have been a loyal user of Netscape-descended products since about 1995. I went through the whole old Netscape family from 1 to 4.x, then moved to Mozilla Application Suite when it went 1.0 and eventually to Seamonkey, also when it went 1.0 -- and now I moved to Seamonkey 2. (By the way, I think I should point out that I never had any significant problems with any of them -- the opposite in fact, since the few problems I had were *easily* solved, while similar problems with IE or Outlook Express in my customers' machines turned out to be major headaches.)
However, for a number of reasons, for a long time I kept Internet Exploder as the "official" default browser in my Windows setup -- mainly because it used to load faster when I clicked on a local HTML file, and also because a few IE-dependent applications had problems if you changed default browser. I almost never used IE for actual Internet browsing, much less OE or even Outlook for e-mail. Then IE7 (and later IE8) came, and Microsoft finally took steps to separate the browser from the operating system -- a small step in the right direction from a security standpoint. But the end result is that IE now loads quite slower, negating the advantage of leaving it as the default HTML file viewer. Also, with the rise of Firefox, other applications learned how to deal with a computer where IE is not the default browser. So, with a song in my heart, I thought I was finally able to set Seamonkey as the default browser. Or so I thought. Turns out that there is a Microsoft piece of crap that insists on ruining it: the so-called Office HTML Icon Handler (MSOHEV.DLL). It is installed (no choice about it) with Office 2003, and modifies the standard way Explorer handles HTML files: if it finds a line in the HTML header indicating that an Office application generated that file, it does two things: 1. If you right-click the file and choose "Edit", it will open the file on the so-called "appropriate" application (usually Word, but sometimes Excel or PowerPoint) instead of on the default HTML editor (Notetab, a plaintext editor, in my case). 2. It will change the icon and filetype description in Explorer to indicate the file "special" status as an "office HTML file." Having a different icon is (sometimes) convenient, because it makes it plain that that file will need hand-tweaking (Word-generated HTML is so full of crap that after I finish with it, the file has usually shrunk by two-thirds or more). But it makes browsing a directory with lots of HTML files very slow, since the handler will have to open each file to check. But I could live with the lowered performance, so I let it be. Until, that is, when it *broke*. Now all my HTML files display the "unknown file type" icon (although they are listed correctly as "Seamonkey Document"). I tried all sorts of remedies. I tried unregistering the DLL, as detailed here: http://richardrudek.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8B65F3DE0BE797AA!219.entry I tried deleting the "Iconhandler" subkey on the Seamonkey HTML Registry key. I tried setting the default browser back to IE and then to Seamonkey again. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office. I tried manually choosing the correct icon. All solutions I found were transitory at best. As soon as I use Word it will "restore the defaults" and crap all over my setup again. Has anybody managed to tame this beast? -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... More things change, the more you need alterations * TagZilla 0.0661 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org on Seamonkey 2.0 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
