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Setting Firefox as Default Browser using Registry Changes

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Allan Newsome

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Feb 28, 2007, 8:14:29 PM2/28/07
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I am an administrator at my workplace and we have been using Mozilla as
our browser/e-mail client and we are in the process of pushing out
Firefox and Thunderbird to replace the older Mozilla.

I would like to be able to set the default browser to Firefox using
changes to the registry because our users do not have permission to
change their default browser on our domain.

This "seems" like it would be a well documented thing to do but so far I
have been unable to turn up what registry entries need to be changed in
order to make this browser change.

Is there a tool...script...or reg file that we can use to make this
change on a domain?

Thank you for any help you can be.

--Allan

Nir

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Feb 28, 2007, 10:59:31 PM2/28/07
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may be this will be helpful
"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Windows"

Allan Newsome

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Mar 1, 2007, 6:12:27 PM3/1/07
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Nir wrote:
> may be this will be helpful
> "http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Windows"

Thank you. I've been looking at that today to see if I can get some help
from there. So far...there are still things that just don't get set
correctly.

Old Gringo

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Mar 3, 2007, 8:39:09 AM3/3/07
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On Or About Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:12:27 -0600, Without Any Hesitation
Or Thinking Twice, Allan Newsome Stumbled Over To The Keyboard And
wrote The Following In The mozilla.support.firefox News Group:

Just a thought, Ff and Tb do not have apply buttons, always use Ok
and don't close settings by X. ??
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3/3/2007 7:37:25 AM CST

Allan Newsome

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Mar 3, 2007, 8:31:07 PM3/3/07
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Old Gringo wrote:
> On Or About Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:12:27 -0600, Without Any Hesitation
> Or Thinking Twice, Allan Newsome Stumbled Over To The Keyboard And
> wrote The Following In The mozilla.support.firefox News Group:
>
>> Nir wrote:
>>> may be this will be helpful
>>> "http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Windows"
>> Thank you. I've been looking at that today to see if I can get some help
>> from there. So far...there are still things that just don't get set
>> correctly.
>
> Just a thought, Ff and Tb do not have apply buttons, always use Ok
> and don't close settings by X. ??

Thank you but the problem is that on our network domain at work the
ability to change default browser is disabled for 'regular' users. Only
admins can make the change.

That's why I'm looking for the registry entries that need changing to
make that happen.

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