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Old February 14th 18, 12:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cant switch default browser

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:43:54 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:28:45 -0600, wrote:
I'm running Win98se. For many years my default browser was K-Meleon, and
I also had the highest (usable in 98) version of Firefox installed. (FF
version 3.x).

K-Meleon no longer works on almost any website, and the upgrades for it
are only for XP and higher.

I want to switch and make Firefox the default browser. But I cant make
it switch. I went to the Options in FF and clicked on "Make FF the
Default Browser". That does nothing, and I have tried to do it at least
10 times.

I even made a backup of K-Meleon and deleted it. Then went to FF and
clicked on "make FF the default". Still nothing. All it did then, was to
keep annoying me by saying it cant find K-Meleon.exe.

I even went so far as to modify my registry to remove all references to
K-Meleon. Then went to FF and once again, clicked on "Make FF the
default".

Still no change.....

I since restored the registry and put back K-Meleon from the backup.

How the heck can I make FF my default browser?

After that, I'll remove K-Meleon permanently.


Use below REG file. Copy and paste it into Notepad. Change the paths to your
Firefox's installation path. Make sure you use two backslashes just like
below example REG file. Save it as e.g. "SetBrowser.reg". Include the quotes
so that Notepad won't save it as "SetBrowser.reg.txt". Once it's saved,
close Firefox if it's running, then double-click the REG file (choose Yes/OK
when prompted).

If *.html files are also still opened with K-Meleon, SHIFT+RightClick a
*.html file then choose "Open with...". Choose the Firefox application, then
press OK.

**********start of code (don't include this line)**********
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ftp\shell\open\command]
@="c:\\program files\\firefox\\firefox.exe %1"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ftp\shell\open\ddeexec]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command]
@="c:\\program files\\firefox\\firefox.exe %1"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\command]
@="c:\\program files\\firefox\\firefox.exe %1"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]


Ok, I ran both of these scripts. After fixing the header on the first
one. Firefox did then become my default browser. One exception, all .HTM
or .HTML files on my computer still had the K-Meleon icon on them. Even
after uninstallion K-Meleon, this persisted. This makes me wonder where
it obtained that icon, with K-Meleon completely removed (evne the folder
for it). I would have expected that after a reboot, that the icon would
be gone. NOPE.... Still there.....

I finally reinstalled Firefox, right on top of the existing
installation. I just installed it as an upgrade even though it's the
same version. That made the Firefox icon appear on all .HTM / HTML
files.

Now I have another problem. On my desktop, I have several icons that are
direct links to websites. For example, 1. Local Weather 2. Ebay 3. My
own webpage. With K-Meleon, I could open the local weather. If I
clicked on the" my own webpage" icon, that would open in another
K-Meleon window. Now, I can only open ONE of these at a time. If I have
the local weather page loaded, and click on my Ebay url, NOTHING
HAPPENS. I have to either close the open weather page, or copy and paste
the URL from my deesktop link into another tab or window in Firefox.
This is really annoying.

How can I fix this?

Is this a setting inside of Firefox, or a registry issue, or what?

I want to be able to open any webpage by clicking on my links, and have
them open in a new window for each one. That's how it should be....