251809 - netzero.com - dialer doesn't obey default browser setting

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Dick Palmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Firefox 0.9.2

Something that does not happen with Mozilla but does in Firefox--
When ISP Netzero software connects it automatically opens a browser to it's
homepage.  When Firefox is the default browser it is able to change the default
browser to I.E. and then open I.E. instead of Firefox.  Even if I set my
firewall to prohibit I.E. from accessing the internet it still sets it as the
default browser and opens it.  When I set the option in Internet Options to not
check to see if I.E. is the default browser when it opens it still sets it to
default and opens it.  As I said, this does not happen when Mozilla is the
default browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Netzero software and dial up
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Netzero sets I.E. as the default browser and opens it

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have opened as the default browser

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Dupe of bug 246078?

Comment 2

[Dick Palmer]

I doesn't seem like the same problem to me, but I am a novice and many of those
things may or may not be related.  I have no way of telling.

Comment 3

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

I don't think there'sa anything that Firefox can do if they insist on making IE
the default browser. The only thing that can be done is to ask NetZero to change
their software to stop that behaviour.

->Tech Evang?

Comment 4

[Robert Parenton]

Not a Firefox problem, as there is nothing it can do about this.

Comment 5

[Robert Parenton]

*** Bug 252847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Dick Palmer]

Could possibly be right that it is not a firefox bug and only a netzero problem,
but it seems strange that mozilla 1.6-1.7 both have some type of code that
prohibit this default browser change and they open correctly, whereas when
firefox is the default browser it is somehow "hijacked" and IE is set as the
default.

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 276609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan]

See bug 263206 for some email comunication to/from Netzero about this problem. 

Comment 9

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 272305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 338637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

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