288429 - you can set mozilla as the standard browser but when you do that and want to open you mailbox of hotmail via msn it stills opens it with IE(internet explorer)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[abel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2

when you have installed and run mozilla firefox for the first time firefox asks
you if you want to set mozilla firefox as your standard webbrowser.
if you click yes you think that every webpage is opened by Firefox..
but it isn't that way.
when you open msn and click on the button mailbox(or whatever it is called i'm
not english so...:) )it still opens your mailbox with IE.
but you have set firefox as your standard browser.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download mozilla firefox and execute it.when it's executed start it and set it
as your standard browser
2.sign in at msn(doesn't matter which version) and open you mailbox via msn
3.it opens your inbox with internet explorer instead of using firefox to open
you hotmail inbox.


Actual Results:  
it opens hotmail inbox with IE instead of using Mozilla Firefox

Expected Results:  
opened hotmail inbox via msn using Mozilla Firefox

Comment 1

[Giles Robertson]

Confirm behaviour, but it's not our bug.

That's because MSN doesn't respect default browser settings. 

Suggest Resolve:Invalid

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Blame Micro$oft :-( They've hardcoded IE in MSN.