Website assigned to keyboard buttons always open in IE

I have set up various keyboard buttons to open specific web pages and made
Firefox as the default browser. However, if Firefox is not open then these
buttons always open the web pages in IE7 - if Firefox is open then the pages
open in Firefox.

In my XP machine Firefox always opened the pages regardless of whether it is
open or not. Is there something else I need to do in Vista to prevent IE
loading these pages?

Denis

"Denis" <denis@durnian> wrote in message
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>I have set up various keyboard buttons to open specific web pages and made
>Firefox as the default browser. However, if Firefox is not open then these
>buttons always open the web pages in IE7 - if Firefox is open then the
>pages open in Firefox.
>
> In my XP machine Firefox always opened the pages regardless of whether it
> is open or not. Is there something else I need to do in Vista to prevent
> IE loading these pages?
>

You set FF to be the default browser to use, which it should have been
asking you that at one point.

And XP didn't set FF as the default browser either. It had to be at one
point you or someone told XP that FF was to be the default browser to use
when opening URL(s)/links to Web sites.

I don't follow what you are trying to tell me.

FF had asked me to set it as the default browser and I had chosen to do so,
on both machines. So what is the difference?


"Mr. Arnold" <MR. > wrote in message
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>
> "Denis" <denis@durnian> wrote in message
> news:906EE76E-180E-46C1-9168-...
>>I have set up various keyboard buttons to open specific web pages and made
>>Firefox as the default browser. However, if Firefox is not open then
>>these buttons always open the web pages in IE7 - if Firefox is open then
>>the pages open in Firefox.
>>
>> In my XP machine Firefox always opened the pages regardless of whether it
>> is open or not. Is there something else I need to do in Vista to prevent
>> IE loading these pages?
>>
>
> You set FF to be the default browser to use, which it should have been
> asking you that at one point.
>
> And XP didn't set FF as the default browser either. It had to be at one
> point you or someone told XP that FF was to be the default browser to use
> when opening URL(s)/links to Web sites.
>

"Denis" <denis@durnian> wrote in message
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>I don't follow what you are trying to tell me.
>
> FF had asked me to set it as the default browser and I had chosen to do
> so, on both machines. So what is the difference?

That means if you have not specially started up IE, then anything you click
on that is going to start a browser up so that it can be displayed to you,
FF (the default) is going to be chosen by the operating system to do it.
Maybe, your button program. is not configured properly and is choosing IE.