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IE reclaims default browser status despite settings

Mar 17, 2005 5:36AM PST

I'm running Windows 2000 Server with Terminal Services in application mode. I am using Firefox 1.0, set as the default browser. IE is configured to NOT check that it is the default browser.

Every time I log in and open Firefox the first time, Firefox tells me it is no longer the default browser and would I like to make it the default. Of course, I always click Yes.

Any ideas about how I can end this annoying habit of IE reclaiming default browser status?

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Anyone else using the computer?
Mar 17, 2005 8:02AM PST

Is this a computer at work? Someone else may start IE and make it default browser every time. Maybe you should just uninstall IE. There's no use for it anyway.

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Firefox as default browser on Windows 2000 Terminal Server
Mar 17, 2005 9:04PM PST

Yes, it's a multiuser computer, but Windows NT/2000 roaming profiles are being used, so each user's settings are unique from all the others.

Any other ideas?

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IE should check for default status
Mar 24, 2005 8:50PM PST

I think the box for IE to check to see if it's the default browser should be checked. Reason being that when it checks to see if it is, it will see that it isn't and therefore won't try to be. ??? That make any sense?

Kat4547

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Try this...
Mar 25, 2005 12:56AM PST

For awhile I had a problem with IE opening up whenever I clicked on a link in an e-mail message. Unfortunately, Windows has multiple places where preferences get stored and you may just need to find the one place you missed. I am using WindowsXP, but you may have the same option in 2000--at least it's worth checking.

Go to "start>set program access and defaults." Change your default to Firefox here. This is what finally helped solve my problem. Hopefully it will work for you.........Gina

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IE is "locked" as default browser
May 10, 2005 5:15AM PDT

This started happening several weeks ago when I upgraded to Firefox 1.0.2. When I click on a URL in an e-mail message, IE always comes up as the defualt browser.

I recently upgraded to 1.0.3; however, the problem is still there.

I've tried the Start | Set Program Access and Defaults described by GinaPA; however, it does NOT take the new settings (even tried changing the "default media player" and it still reverts back to the prior one).

Is there a registry setting that needs to be changed (I'm assuming the above should be doing that as well).

TIA, andymcgill

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Default browsers
Mar 25, 2005 1:50AM PST

When I had firefox in the past, and when I tried to open a link, it would default to IE. I had to get into the option box in firefox to make the browser be my default. From then on, Firefox became the default browser whenever I click on a link.