150066 - Mozilla confuses IE about its default browser status

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138997

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Richard Godbee]

By viewing the Advanced->System panel in the Preferences dialog, Mozilla does
something that makes Internet Explorer think it's no longer the default browser.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make sure Internet Explorer is the default browser and Mozilla isn't.
2. Start Mozilla and select the "Edit->Preferences" menu item.
3. Expand the "Advanced" group and click "System".
4. Click the OK button.
5. Close Mozilla.
6. Open Internet Explorer.  It will complain that it is no longer the default
browser (if configured to do so).

If you skip step 6 and instead Start->Run... "http://www.mozilla.org/", Internet
Explorer starts up and complains it's not the default browser (even though an
http:// URL just started it).

Version info:
Windows NT 4.0 + SP6a
Internet Explorer 6.0.2600.0000
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020607, build ID
2002060704

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138997 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

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