282629 - URLs in PDF files cause IE to open, even though Firefox is default browser

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Ellen Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I found this note in Mozilla status update of June 11 2001
(www.mozilla.org/status/2001-06-13.html): "Bill made it so that clicking links
in Adobe Acrobat would bring up Mozilla (DDE implementation)."

A related bug seems to be #279685, which describes similar problem when clicking
on AOL links

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Acrobat's web capture to create a PDF from a web page; make sure the
captured page has links to other URLs
2. In the PDF, rightclick on a URL link, and select "Open Weblink in Browser"


Actual Results:  
IE opens, not Firefox

Expected Results:  
URL should open in Firefox

using windows XP sp1

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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