Xnews use of IE

[thewiz]

Is there a way to have Xnews pick Firefox instead of the default explorer
IE7 in my case?

[Bert Hyman]

In news:oXxQm.48023$X01....@newsfe07.iad thewiz
<jwell...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to have Xnews pick Firefox instead of the default
> explorer IE7 in my case?

You'd have to make Firefox your default browser.

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN be...@iphouse.com

[chuckcar]

thewiz <jwell...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:oXxQm.48023$X01....@newsfe07.iad:

> Is there a way to have Xnews pick Firefox instead of the default
> explorer IE7 in my case?

You're going at this backwards: The browser is used to determine what
URL's are opened with. IE when it's installed and Firefox will allow that
to be changed *if* installed without the dummy (default) install or in
it's settings. RTFM.

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(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )

[George Kamenz]

>=-in news.software.readers did chuckcar write:

>You're going at this backwards: The browser is used to determine what
>URL's are opened with. IE when it's installed and Firefox will allow that

>to be changed if installed without the dummy (default) install or in
>it's settings. RTFM.
>=- at around 2009-11-29 06:18:45 PM

Hope that made sense to the rest o'y'all. (If it did, well, maybe, just
maybe, you could explain it.)

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gjk

[Indi]

I thik it means you have to select Firefox as your default browser to
do what you're trying to do. I'm assuming it's because Windows won't
let your newsreader override the browser setting. So whatever you have
to do to tell windows you want FF as the default browser, just do that.

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Cheers,
indi

[Mike Yetto]

Bada bing George Kamenz <g...@foo.bar.baz.INVALID> bada bang:

Basically it means that chuckcar rarely gives good advice and it
needs to be translated, interpreted and tossed out.

Mike "and just set the system's default browser" Yetto
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In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice they are not.

[chuckcar]

"George Kamenz" <g...@foo.bar.baz.INVALID> wrote in
news:xn0gi9p7...@news.x-privat.org:

Go into the settings for firefox and set it to be the default browser.

[VanguardLH]

George Kamenz wrote:

> chuckcar wrote:
>
>> You're going at this backwards: The browser is used to determine what
>> URL's are opened with. IE when it's installed and Firefox will allow
>> that to be changed if installed without the dummy (default) install or
>> in it's settings. RTFM.
>

> Hope that made sense to the rest o'y'all. (If it did, well, maybe, just
> maybe, you could explain it.)

You didn't notice who posted that?