170867 - mIRC opening links in IE instead of Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Mike Odom]

All other programs that I'm running open Mozilla when I click on a link. But
clicking on a link in mIRC opens up IE. Looked through all mIRC's preferences.
Couldn't find an option.
I'm running mozila 1.2a with mIRC 6.03 (latest build)

Bug 153533 indicates that this works for others / did work in previous versions.

Quick seach on the mIRC forums shows users with a similiar problem.
http://trout.snt.utwente.nl:82/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=bugreports&Number=79281&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=mozilla&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=1week&Main=79281
http://trout.snt.utwente.nl:82/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=bugreports&Number=79181&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=mozilla&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=1week&Main=79181

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 176375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Duey]

I found a post in the mIRC forum about a work around (
http://trout.snt.utwente.nl/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=mirchelp&Number=13&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1
)

< quote>
 When you click on a hotlink in mIRC, the browser which is set as windows
default will open the link. If you want to specify a different browser, try
putting these lines into your remote section (alt + r)

on ^*:hotlink:*//*.*:*: { }
on *:hotlink:*//*.*:*: { run C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe $1 }
on ^*:hotlink:*www.*:*: { }
on *:hotlink:*www.*:*: { run C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe $1 } 
< /quote>

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> other

Comment 4

[Phillip Stewart :P]

Fixed in mIRC 6.1, released on 29 Aug.

mIRC users might also be interested in Bug 172962.

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This has been fixed.