html file association

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file and
displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not working
properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the Context Menu,
Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and Firefox is still my
default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it was
right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file and
displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not working
properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the Context Menu,
Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and Firefox is still my
default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it was
right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

Bill Watt wrote in
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On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file
and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/


I'll save your comment for next time.

I had forgotten to reboot, when I did that, the settings worked again.

Thanks

ms

Bill Watt wrote in
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On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file
and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/



Bill, I only have partial results.

The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox opens
and it displays the file.

But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays a
blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To, it will
open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always on Firefox.

Advice?

ms

ms wrote:
Bill Watt wrote in
:

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file
and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms
Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/



Bill, I only have partial results.

The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox opens
and it displays the file.

But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays a
blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To, it will
open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always on Firefox.

Advice?

ms

ms,

I don't know Firefox, but I *do* know SeaMonkey, and there have
sometimes been issues with that regarding default browser settings.

Is there a Preference option in FF for setting default browser? If so,
check if it's selected or not, and select it if it isn't.

If that still doesn't work, try setting IE (shudder!) back as your
default browser (Control Panel Internet Options Internet Properties
Programs), then go back into FF and reset that as your default (you
may need to reboot after setting IE to default, but try it without
rebooting first).

HTH

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.judgemental.plus.com

reply-to will bounce

Nigel Stapley wrote in
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ms wrote:
Bill Watt wrote in
:

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the
file and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms
Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/



Bill, I only have partial results.

The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox
opens and it displays the file.

But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays
a blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To,
it will open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always
on Firefox.

Advice?

ms

ms,

I don't know Firefox, but I *do* know SeaMonkey, and there have
sometimes been issues with that regarding default browser settings.

Is there a Preference option in FF for setting default browser? If so,
check if it's selected or not, and select it if it isn't.

If that still doesn't work, try setting IE (shudder!) back as your
default browser (Control Panel Internet Options Internet
Properties
Programs), then go back into FF and reset that as your default (you
may need to reboot after setting IE to default, but try it without
rebooting first).

HTH


FF has that setting, yes it's the default browser, proof is htm files
open normally, and in my newsreader, a link opens in FF.

IE (shudder!) only as a last resort, if nothing else works.

ms

On 26 Nov 2006 19:11:32 GMT, ms wrote:

Bill Watt wrote in
:

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file
and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/



Bill, I only have partial results.

The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox opens
and it displays the file.

But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays a
blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To, it will
open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always on Firefox.

Advice?

ms

Try "Open with" on an HTML document again and see if it sticks this
time.

Otherwise in Folder Options File Types select the HTML document
that has HTM HTML SHTML for extensions and choose OPEN. Make it the
default. There may be more than one HTML listed.

If still no help you might try TweakUI and repair file associations
under the Repair tab. Not sure what that will do in this case but
I've used it several times and it caused no problems.

Maybe that will help.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

"ms" wrote in message ...
Nigel Stapley wrote in
:

ms wrote:
Bill Watt wrote in
:

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the
file and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly.

If that still doesn't work, try setting IE (shudder!) back as your
default browser (Control Panel Internet Options Internet
Properties
Programs), then go back into FF and reset that as your default (you
may need to reboot after setting IE to default, but try it without
rebooting first).

FF has that setting, yes it's the default browser, proof is htm files
open normally, and in my newsreader, a link opens in FF.

IE (shudder!) only as a last resort, if nothing else works.

I think Nigel's point was that switching to IE then back to FF will force
them to fix the registry values for html, etc. Html is a MIME type and is
more complicated thanan "Open with" will properly handle.

Or, try the tweakUI fix that Bill Watt suggested.

Bill Watt wrote in
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On 26 Nov 2006 19:11:32 GMT, ms wrote:

Bill Watt wrote in
m:

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file
and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/



Bill, I only have partial results.

The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox
opens and it displays the file.

But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays a
blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To, it
will open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always on
Firefox.

Advice?

ms

Try "Open with" on an HTML document again and see if it sticks this
time.

Otherwise in Folder Options File Types select the HTML document
that has HTM HTML SHTML for extensions and choose OPEN. Make it the
default. There may be more than one HTML listed.

If still no help you might try TweakUI and repair file associations
under the Repair tab. Not sure what that will do in this case but
I've used it several times and it caused no problems.

Maybe that will help.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/


I have sure learned this time- never run cleaners. I should mention, this
is W2K, I went to that ng, suggestions showed everything seemed Ok, still
can't directly open a html file.

In your above, I only had one entry htm- that works OK. Another entry
html- that does not. Not as you show above. Anyway, tweakui for W2K does
not include file associations in repair.

So I deleted the html extention in File Types, recreated it and pointed
it to the FF exe file. Rebooted, no luck,

Then I got the Open With screen, Other, always use, pointed to the exe,
then it did open the html correctly ONCE.
But next time again it opens FF, file not found.

My FF version is portable, not installed, but has registry keys.

Maybe there are 2 possibilities, but see below:

a. run IE, associate the extensions with IE, then would have to still
rerun FF to change back as default browser.

b.Clean all FF entries out of registry, rerun FF and hope.

Maybe this is a clue- when FF opens a html file, message- file not found.
The path it shows is not right:
Firefox can't find the file at /D:/Download/Edit.

The actual path to that file is:
D:\Download\Edit later\A Samples\Sample.html

So FF is looking at the wrong place?

If I can correct this, that may take care of it.

Where to correct it?

ms

On 28 Nov 2006 16:52:57 GMT, ms wrote:

Bill Watt wrote in
:

On 26 Nov 2006 19:11:32 GMT, ms wrote:

Bill Watt wrote in
:

On 25 Nov 2006 22:34:03 GMT, ms wrote:

Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file
and displays it.

Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not
working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the
Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and
Firefox is still my default browser.

I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it
was right before, surely right now.

I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the
extension points to the exe.

How to fix this?

ms

Maybe you already did this.

Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while
holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox.
Then check "Always use". Then ok.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/



Bill, I only have partial results.

The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox
opens and it displays the file.

But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays a
blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To, it
will open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always on
Firefox.

Advice?

ms

Try "Open with" on an HTML document again and see if it sticks this
time.

Otherwise in Folder Options File Types select the HTML document
that has HTM HTML SHTML for extensions and choose OPEN. Make it the
default. There may be more than one HTML listed.

If still no help you might try TweakUI and repair file associations
under the Repair tab. Not sure what that will do in this case but
I've used it several times and it caused no problems.

Maybe that will help.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/


I have sure learned this time- never run cleaners. I should mention, this
is W2K, I went to that ng, suggestions showed everything seemed Ok, still
can't directly open a html file.

In your above, I only had one entry htm- that works OK. Another entry
html- that does not. Not as you show above. Anyway, tweakui for W2K does
not include file associations in repair.

So I deleted the html extention in File Types, recreated it and pointed
it to the FF exe file. Rebooted, no luck,

Then I got the Open With screen, Other, always use, pointed to the exe,
then it did open the html correctly ONCE.
But next time again it opens FF, file not found.

My FF version is portable, not installed, but has registry keys.

Maybe there are 2 possibilities, but see below:

a. run IE, associate the extensions with IE, then would have to still
rerun FF to change back as default browser.

b.Clean all FF entries out of registry, rerun FF and hope.

Maybe this is a clue- when FF opens a html file, message- file not found.
The path it shows is not right:
Firefox can't find the file at /D:/Download/Edit.

The actual path to that file is:
D:\Download\Edit later\A Samples\Sample.html

So FF is looking at the wrong place?

If I can correct this, that may take care of it.

Where to correct it?
__________________________________________

Firefox can't find the file at /D:/Download/Edit.

If that's not a typo it should read:
D:\Download\Edit later\A Samples\Sample.html with backward
slashes ( \ ) not ( / ).

Firefox should be listed with the "Other" file types, you should not
have to browse for it. Maybe it's because Firefox is portable and
not fully in the Registry.

With the new info you have found maybe post a message in
microsoft.public.win2000.general.

Be sure to tell them that "Send To" works.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/