Is there anything about the links that IE tries to open that are
similar?

OE depends on the Windows File Associations to to determine which
application opens a link. There are different file associations for
different types of URLs.

There is a separate one for HTTP and HTTPS. As well as ones for news,
mailto, etc.

Open Window Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types. If you sort
on Extension, the URL ones will be towards the top with the "(NONE)"
extensions.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Dave" wrote in message
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That helped, but it didn't cure it. EI still randomly tries to open
links. If I click on a link, FF will open it most times, but sometimes
EI will still try it. It seems to happen less often, but still
happens. I even rebooted after making my default selections.



Bruce Hagen wrote:
[Crossposted to IE General. This is for Outlook Express]

Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults
| Custom + Down Arrow | Choose a default Web browser. Select the
radio button for Firefox.

"Dave" wrote in message
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I use Firefox. But recently, if I click on a link in a newsgroup
post IE tries to open it--sometimes. (Don't recall if it occurs w/
links in emails.) Not only do I not want IE to do this, though it
tries, it doesn't actually open the link successfully. It gives the
msg: invalid syntax error.

How do I make it so that IE does not try to open ANYTHING (which is
it had been working)?