289556 - Windows 2003 SP1 does not honor default browser setting.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Robert L. Murphy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 StumbleUpon/1.9993
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 StumbleUpon/1.9993

If you upgrade to Windows 2003 SP1 from Windows 2003 Firefox will no longer be
your default browser and you cannot make it be the default browser.  No matter
what you do, IE will always be launched if you click on a URL in Thunderbird or
any program other than Firefox

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Windows 2003
2.Install Firefox
3.Upgrade to Windows 2003 SP1

Actual Results:  
All URLs are processed by IE except from within Firefox

Expected Results:  
When Firefox launches and asks you if you want it to be the default browser,
from that point on any time you click on a URL Firefox should open that URL, not IE.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de-DE; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050404

Comment 2

[u63580]

Wouldn't that be a Windows problem anyway, rather than a FF one?

Comment 3

[timeless]

generally it means some mozilla code didn't really properly register. just
because we have code that seems to work in some places doesn't mean it's
anywhere near correct.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050408 &
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317
Firefox/1.0.2

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Attachment: Registry Capture

I made a Registry capture on the Windows 2003 SP1 Server. There you can see an
example of the change of the default Browser Setting from IE -> Mozilla
Seamonkey Trunk -> Firefox 1.0.2

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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