How define Firefox as Default Browser

[Howard Schwartz]

I asked this on seemingly other appropriate newsgroups, but the answers
were to install/uninstall browsers without knowing why this would work:

I have a win 95 installation with IE removed by iradicate, and the firefox
browser installed. I have used setbrows.exe and firefox to try to set
firefox to the default browser. It has not worked. Appears some application
will automatically launch firefox when I double click a URL, but not
others, such as Xnews.

Is there a list of registry entries and/or dills and or whatever on the
internet that must be set or there to completely define a default browser
for windows? I would very much like to establish these settings manually
and do away with the mystery.

Thanks for any help.

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[Martin Leese]

Howard Schwartz wrote:
> I asked this on seemingly other appropriate newsgroups, but the answers
> were to install/uninstall browsers without knowing why this would work:
>
> I have a win 95 installation with IE removed by iradicate, and the firefox
> browser installed. I have used setbrows.exe and firefox to try to set
> firefox to the default browser. It has not worked. Appears some application
> will automatically launch firefox when I double click a URL, but not
> others, such as Xnews.
>
> Is there a list of registry entries and/or dills and or whatever on the
> internet that must be set or there to completely define a default browser
> for windows? I would very much like to establish these settings manually
> and do away with the mystery.

I asked a similar question over on alt.fan.mozilla.
Here is the resulting thread:
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.fan.mozilla/browse_frm/thread/446ed682efda6406/f9aafbede754198a?q=firefox+author:martin+author:leese&rnum=3&hl=en#f9aafbede754198a

This worked for me:
|| I don't use Win95 and haven't for a long time, but I take it the
|| Firefox setting for checking the default browser in "Tools >
|| Options > General" doesn't work in Win95?

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