Only the 2 HTTP ones should matter. The one with Privacy refers to
HTTPS and the other to plain HTTP.

URLS such as FTP or Gopher going to IE shouldn't matter for this
problem. And the Mailto one should be pointing to your default mail
client.

Look at the details for the HTTP link. If it says to use DDE, you might
try unchecking that.

--

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



"Dave" wrote in message
...
Michael Santovec wrote:
Those are all HTTP links, so they all Ought to be processed the same
way.

Take a look at the file associations for "URL Hyper Text Transport
Protocol" and see what program it says is supposed to handle them.

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

There are a bunch of URL types. Some are associated with FireFox,
including the 2 HTTP ones. But some URL types are assocated with IE.
Does this matter?







"Dave" wrote in message
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Michael Santovec wrote:
Is there anything about the links that IE tries to open that are
similar?

Mike, here are 3 links from newsgroups I read in OE.

The first 2 below are inconsistent. In most cases FireFox opens
them. But sometimes IE tries (unsuccessfully).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrcki3rlesk

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/kurt-rosenwinkle/

As many times as I click on this one, IE grabs it, though doesn't
open it.

http://essentialsound.com/mm5/mercha...ory_Co de=REF



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.

Not sure what you're telling me to do.






"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
...
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)?