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Swithcing Internet explorer to Firefox

Mar 3, 2015 4:17AM PST

I switched to Firefox as my browser. I removed internet explorer. I'm using windows xp.

I can no longer select a link in my email that will connect me to the intended page.

Any suggestions outside of going back to a restore date.

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Removed IE
Mar 3, 2015 4:22AM PST

Removing IE cripples Windows. That's a bad idea , since you win nothing with it, except a very minor bit of disc space.

So see if you can download IE 8 and install that. If not, the work around is to copy/paste that link into the address bar of Firefox. Quite doable, I'd say.

Kees

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how accessing emails
Mar 3, 2015 4:34AM PST

how are you accessing your emails. are you using webmail or downloading them to an email client? Have you been able to click on the link in the emails? what email service are you using, some of them have settings where you can have active links.

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go into Firefox settings
Mar 3, 2015 4:42AM PST

or preferences, whichever term is used. Check the box to check if Firefox is the default browser.

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Did you make Firefox your
Mar 3, 2015 8:34PM PST

default browser?

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Thank you
Mar 9, 2015 12:50AM PDT

I did not have firefox selected in the browser as my default browser setting. I knew it was something simple... thank you very much... problem solved.