From: usenet@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk   
      
   On 03 Mar 2008, Michael Bulatovich wrote   
      
   > HVS wrote:   
   >> On 02 Mar 2008, ++ wrote   
   >>   
   >>> Since you and Rusty seem to be knowledgeable about browsers,   
   >>> perhaps you can solve my problem.  In thunderbird, clicking on   
   >>> a URL no longer results in being brought into Firefox to that   
   >>> site.  Now I am stuck with tedious cut and paste   
   >>   
   >> The link is a Windows registry rather than a program-specific   
   >> thing -- "all links open in X", rather than "Thunderbird points   
   >> to browser X".   
   >>   
   >> Have you inadvertently "unmade" Firefox as your default   
   >> browser?  (Or Windows might have done it all on its own;  it   
   >> sometimes likes to screw around with your head like that, just   
   >> for fun...)   
   >>   
   >> Try unregistering Firefox and then re-designating it as your   
   >> default. (Open Internet Explorer and make that your default;   
   >> then open FF; have it check if it's the default again --   
   >> Tools>Options>General; close it;  and try a link from   
   >> Thunderbird.)   
   >>   
   >> If that doesn't work, I know of a freebie utility that forces   
   >> the default to be made which might be worth a last-ditch try.   
   >   
   > Historian *and* IT guy! How do you spell renaissance?   
      
   I spell it "S-E-L-F-E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-D".  :))   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Harvey   
   Architectural and topographical historian   
      
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