Save Asx Default

When I open a page in FFox 3.5.6 and then use function "Save As..." to
place a link on my desktop, it converts the link to IE 8.0, not FFox. How
do I switch it back so that the page opens in FFox. All my other links open
in FFox as it has always done in the past.

Tks all

I use XP Home Edit Serv P 3 and IE 8.0 when required but FFox is std.

Bw

"Billy" <> wrote in message news:...
> When I open a page in FFox 3.5.6 and then use function "Save As..." to
> place a link on my desktop, it converts the link to IE 8.0, not FFox.

> How do I switch it back so that the page opens in FFox.


Since the save is being done by Firefox the link (probably a .URL file)
is being created by Firefox. Why? That's the question you should be
asking but not here, ask in Firefox newsgroup or forum.


> All my other links open in FFox as it has always done in the past.


Then use right-click Properties on both types and find out what the
differences are betweem them. E.g. the (assumed) .URL file would be
an Internet Shortcut; what are the Firefox shortcuts? If they are just
ordinary Desktop shortcuts (aka .lnk files) which invoke the Firefox program
and specify the URL as a command line operand you could replace
the .URL file with a .lnk file using that same pattern but with the other
URL.


>
> Tks all
>
> I use XP Home Edit Serv P 3 and IE 8.0 when required but FFox is std.
>
> Bw


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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"Robert Aldwinckle" <> wrote in message
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> "Billy" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> When I open a page in FFox 3.5.6 and then use function "Save As..." to
>> place a link on my desktop, it converts the link to IE 8.0, not FFox.
>
>> How do I switch it back so that the page opens in FFox.
>
>
> Since the save is being done by Firefox the link (probably a .URL file)
> is being created by Firefox. Why? That's the question you should be
> asking but not here, ask in Firefox newsgroup or forum.
>
>
>> All my other links open in FFox as it has always done in the past.
>
>
> Then use right-click Properties on both types and find out what the
> differences are betweem them. E.g. the (assumed) .URL file would be
> an Internet Shortcut; what are the Firefox shortcuts? If they are just
> ordinary Desktop shortcuts (aka .lnk files) which invoke the Firefox
> program
> and specify the URL as a command line operand you could replace
> the .URL file with a .lnk file using that same pattern but with the other
> URL.
>
>
>>
>> Tks all
>>
>> I use XP Home Edit Serv P 3 and IE 8.0 when required but FFox is std.
>>
>> Bw
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Aldwinckle

Thank you Robert, I right clicked the IE shortcut and changed it to FFox,
appreciate the quick reply, now to get it to save to FFox each time as
default

bw
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"Billy" <> wrote in message news:Oi9i$...
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> "Robert Aldwinckle" <> wrote in message news:...
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>> "Billy" <> wrote in message news:...
>>> When I open a page in FFox 3.5.6 and then use function "Save As..." to
>>> place a link on my desktop, it converts the link to IE 8.0, not FFox.
>>
>>> How do I switch it back so that the page opens in FFox.
>>
>>
>> Since the save is being done by Firefox the link (probably a .URL file)
>> is being created by Firefox. Why? That's the question you should be
>> asking but not here, ask in Firefox newsgroup or forum.
>>
>>
>>> All my other links open in FFox as it has always done in the past.
>>
>>
>> Then use right-click Properties on both types and find out what the
>> differences are betweem them. E.g. the (assumed) .URL file would be
>> an Internet Shortcut; what are the Firefox shortcuts? If they are just
>> ordinary Desktop shortcuts (aka .lnk files) which invoke the Firefox program
>> and specify the URL as a command line operand you could replace
>> the .URL file with a .lnk file using that same pattern but with the other
>> URL.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Tks all
>>>
>>> I use XP Home Edit Serv P 3 and IE 8.0 when required but FFox is std.
>>>
>>> Bw
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Robert Aldwinckle
>
> Thank you Robert, I right clicked the IE shortcut and changed it to FFox, appreciate the quick reply, now to get it to save to
> FFox each time as default


You're not giving us much to work with. Was I right that saving the "link"
is creating an Internet Shortcut (aka .URL file)? If so, you could check
on its file type association in a cmd window:

<example>
<cmd_output OS="XPsp3">
F:\>assoc .url
..url=InternetShortcut

F:\>ftype InternetShortcut
InternetShortcut="F:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe " "F:\WINDOWS\system32\ieframe.dll",OpenURL %l
</cmd_output>
</example>

So, *if* the saved link is a .URL file and *if* a .URL file's open action
is done by ieframe.dll you would have an explanation for your symptom.
And in that case I would suspect that you don't have Firefox properly set
as your default browser. I don't use Firefox and don't know whether it even
uses .URL files or if it does what the open action for it would look like.
That's why I suggested you check with a Firefox forum.


HTH

Robert
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