269368 - (MadOutlook) Clicking link in Outlook, Thunderbird, Word or Excel runs non-default browser

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Alexander Amzin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

I've installed IE 6.0, MyIE and Firefox. Firefox is set as default browser. When
I click link in one of Outlook mails it runs MyIE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox and set it as default browser
2. Click link in Outlook
3. maybe you need to install third browser BEFORE Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Clicking link runs previous browser or IE (i suppose)

Expected Results:  
It should run Firefox instead.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 269367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

So it works when clicking on links in other programs?

Comment 3

[Alexander Amzin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> So it works when clicking on links in other programs?

Never thought of it until you asked.

Trying MS Word - the same effect.
Excel - the same effect.

THUNDERBIRD - the same effect! It runs MyIE, not Firefox...

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

So, it doenst work from any program then.

Can  you go to /tools/options/general 

and click on "check now" under the "default browser"?

Comment 5

[Alexander Amzin]

(In reply to comment #4)
> So, it doenst work from any program then.
> 
> Can  you go to /tools/options/general 
> 
> and click on "check now" under the "default browser"?

Of course. 

"Firefox is already set as your default browser".

That is the problem...:)

Comment 6

[Schauwi]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > So, it doenst work from any program then.
> > 
> > Can  you go to /tools/options/general 
> > 
> > and click on "check now" under the "default browser"?
> 
> Of course. 
> 
> "Firefox is already set as your default browser".
> 
> That is the problem...:)

You simply have the wrong handler for that special event; so to say MyIE
still catches all the clicks. This is not a firefox problem but a Windows problem.

Open your registry (START-RUN-"Regedit") and browse to that key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTP
Look what you See unter SHELL\OPEN\Command then.
It won't be firefox it's my IE:
The DefaultValue should look like that:
C:\Path\Path\....\Path\FIREFOX.EXE -url "%1"

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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