Closed Bug 315326 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Uninstall does not clean registry and causes IE not to be or ask if default browser

Categories

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Shell Integration
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255225

People

(Reporter: casper89, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.7.12

When uninstalling, registry is not changed back to iexplorer from firefox, which causes some programs and files not to open correctly. I had to manually go thru registry to repair and it took awhile.

Reproducible: Always
I have win98.

There is an option in internet explorer to set it to check if it is the default browser, which, I believe is enabled by default.

Go to Control Panel-->internet options-->Programs tab
Check the box "Internet Explorer should check to see if it is the default browser". 

Then start explorer, and if anything is screwy in the registry regarding default browsers, telling internet explorer to be the default should rewrite all the pertinent items correctly, without resorting to any manual editing of the registry.
Related to/duplicate of bug 255225?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255225 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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