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Old February 17th 18, 11:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Computer Nerd Kev[_2_]
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Default Can onl;y open ONE window of Firefox

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion wrote:

No, I did not keep my profile or anything. (installed). However I did
zip up the old installed one and saved it as well as a copy of the
registry for that date. I evne made sure the folders were removed so as
not to save anything. Then I ran RegSeeker and cleaned all references of
FF from the regisrty. I did all of that BEFORE reinstalling a FRESH
copy.

After finding the new fresh copy install of FF did not fix the problem,
I restored it back toi the way it was, to retain all my settings
bookmarks etc.

Can you please tell me how to enter this at the command line.
(a sample).
My firefox is installed in C:\program files\firefox


I put a little program on my Windows installs that allows me to open
a command prompt in folders using the right-click menu, but the old
way is to open the "run" window, type "cmd", then with the command
prompt open type:
"cd C:\progra~1\firefox
firefox.exe"
Assuming the Firefox executable is named "firefox.exe", not
"firefox-bin.exe" ("firefo~1.exe") or something similar.

I can't remember how well Win98 handles long file names, so
shortening the directories to eight characters might not be
required.

Just for the heck of it, I went and installed a win98 compatible version
of Seamonkey. That seems a little less flakey than K-meleon, and I
wanted a second browser anyhow. After once again, backing up my
regisrty, I set Seamonkey as the defaut browser (from within the
Seamonkey settings). I have no problem with that browser. I can click on
as many web URLs as I want and they open in a new Seamonkey window. I'd
rather have Firefox as my default browser, but till I can fix this
problem, at least I can open all URLs without having to close my
previous webpage.

Even if FF is open to a blank page (as my homepage), I can not click on
a web URL and have FF open. I must close that opened page first. This
seems so stupid.....

My guess is there is something in the registry preventing this. Just
like when I had K-meleon as the default, clicking on "set FF as the
default browser did not work". (from within the FF settings).


Either that or some standard bug when using that version of Firefox
on (that version of?) Win98 or (that version of?) KernelEx.

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