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re: Battle of the default browsers Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 7:05 am Posted by Mandy Whalen (81 messages posted) David wrote: Running Vista RC1. Want Firefox 2.0 to be the default browser. ... I need IE 7 for those sites that Firefox cannot handle (primarily video sites) so I can't just get rid of it. How do I convince Firefox to reset itself and IE 7 to relinquish its iron grip?" I note that nobody has responded to your inquiry in several days. I don't use Vista (and don't plan to for another year or so) so I personally can't help you with specifics. However, I think you're more likely to get an answer if you post your question on a forum specifically devoted to Firefox such as MozillaZine: http://forums.mozillazine.org/ Hope that's of some help. .......mandy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Battle of the default browsers Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 9:19 am Posted by David (20 messages posted) Mandy- under ordinary circumstances, I would quickly agree with you. But this problem is only occurring in Vista, so I figured it might have something to do with the OS. On Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 7:05 am, Mandy Whalen wrote: >David wrote: Running Vista RC1. Want Firefox 2.0 to be the default browser. ... >I need IE 7 for those sites that Firefox cannot handle (primarily video sites) so >I can't just get rid of it. How do I convince Firefox to reset itself and IE 7 to >relinquish its iron grip?" > >I note that nobody has responded to your inquiry in several days. I don't use Vista >(and don't plan to for another year or so) so I personally can't help you with specifics. > However, I think you're more likely to get an answer if you post your question on >a forum specifically devoted to Firefox such as MozillaZine: > >http://forums.mozillazine.org/ > >Hope that's of some help. > >.......mandy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Battle of the default browsers Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 9:27 am Posted by Mandy Whalen (81 messages posted) David wrote: "Mandy under ordinary circumstances, I would quickly agree with you. But this problem is only occurring in Vista, so I figured it might have something to do with the OS." I agree that the problem may well have something to do with the OS. However, I can't find anything on mozilla.com to indicate that Firefox 2.0 formally supports Vista, and that might be source of the problem. Also, you will probably find it hard to get help if you are still using RC1, when RC2 has supplanted it and the "official" versions of Vista are already on sale (business editions) or due to be available in January (personal editions). If it actually is an OS problem, quite possibly it has been fixed in a later release -- and that might mean that the only way to fix it is to pay for a fully-released copy of Vista. Otoh, on the Mozillazine forums, you may find some Firefox experts who would be familiar with the problem and could offer a workaround that would let you continue to use RC1 for free, if that's what you want to do. .....mandy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Battle of the default browsers Monday, December 11, 2006 at 5:15 am Posted by David (20 messages posted) Mandy- as a consultant, I have no choice but to be running Vista on some machine, in order to prepare for the onslaught of questions I will be getting once my clients start buying machines with Vista pre-installed. I have tried everywhere to get RC2 (which I thought I would be getting automatically as a registered beta tester) but I seem stuck with RC1. I will, of course, be buying a version of the commercial Vista, once it is out. It is my obligation to my clients to do so. But this was an interesting problem, and since my objective is to figure them out/get answers here before they crop up in my clients' real life, I thought it would do no harm to ask. The problem with asking at a mozilla forum, is that the folks there don't necessarily run both browsers as regularly as I do. And TRY asking a mozilla quesyion at an IE forum :) Nevertheless, I appreciate your input here. Any idea where I can get a copy of RC2? On Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 9:27 am, Mandy Whalen wrote: >David wrote: "Mandy under ordinary circumstances, I would quickly agree with you. > But this problem is only occurring in Vista, so I figured it might have something >to do with the OS." > >I agree that the problem may well have something to do with the OS. However, I can't >find anything on mozilla.com to indicate that Firefox 2.0 formally supports Vista, >and that might be source of the problem. > >Also, you will probably find it hard to get help if you are still using RC1, when >RC2 has supplanted it and the "official" versions of Vista are already on sale (business >editions) or due to be available in January (personal editions). If it actually >is an OS problem, quite possibly it has been fixed in a later release -- and that >might mean that the only way to fix it is to pay for a fully-released copy of Vista. > >Otoh, on the Mozillazine forums, you may find some Firefox experts who would be familiar >with the problem and could offer a workaround that would let you continue to use >RC1 for free, if that's what you want to do. > >.....mandy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Battle of the default browsers Monday, December 11, 2006 at 5:22 am Posted by Mandy Whalen (81 messages posted) David wrote; "As a consultant, I have no choice but to be running Vista on some machine, in order to prepare for the onslaught of questions I will be getting once my clients start buying machines with Vista pre-installed." It must be particularly difficult with all the different flavors of Vista being offered. From what I've read, the variations are much more pronounced than the difference between WinXP-Pro and WinXP-Home when they were first introduced. David wrote: "The problem with asking at a mozilla forum, is that the folks there don't necessarily run both browsers as regularly as I do. And TRY asking a mozilla question at an IE forum :)" I sympathize [g]. On many technical questions, half the battle seems to be figuring out where to post the question. (I've been trying to get more information the specs for GIF image files, because Google's Picasa -- and a number of other image-editing programs -- won't read a couple of old GIF files that I've downloaded from the web -- although Firefox, WordPerfect etc. read 'em just fine. After a lot of experimentation, I figured out myself that reading the files into MS Paint and saving them again (with no editing changes), would fix whatever was non-standard about the files. I still haven't been able to find out exactly what the problem was, and I can't find a forum with graphics experts that might be able to explain further.) However, everybody has to keep IE if only to be able to download Windows updates, so if you haven't posted at MozillaZine, you might still give it a try. David wrote: "Any idea where I can get a copy of RC2?" I doubt if you could get one that would work properly at this late date. Microsoft has already "turned off" the beta test program. Assuming you could find some other beta tester whom you trust who was willing to give you a copy of whatever (s)he downloaded, there's seems to be a pretty high probability that it wouldn't pass all Microsoft's activation and verification checks when you tried to install it. Since you'll need the real thing for customer support anyway, I assume your only choice is to wait till January and buy it. Otoh, it you posted a query on this Forum with the title: "Is RC2 still available for download anywhere?", perhaps somebody else might have a better suggestion. Good luck! ......mandy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Battle of the default browsers Monday, December 11, 2006 at 1:22 pm Posted by PrinceMyshkin (6 messages posted) For what it's worth, I have exactly the same problem and I am running RC2. Firefox always asks if I want to make it the default browser. I always set it so but it never sticks. IE7 just will not get out of the way. I have no problem running Firefox as default under XP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum