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Brendan Tompkins » Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
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Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in

I've been doing an experiment to see if I can use Firefox as my browser, instead of IE.  Seems like it should be a pretty simple thing to do.  A couple of global settings here and there, and every time I encounter an internet resource of some type,  Firefox should pop up, right?  Isn't that how it should work?  Well, it doesn't work. It's turned out to be nearly impossible for me keep IE from popping up, or to keep from having to launch IE for one thing or another.

Has anyone out there managed to become IE Free?

Posted Thu, Feb 10 2005 10:59 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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ben wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Tue, Feb 15 2005 1:04 PM
I switched my default browser to firefox, and I havent had much problems, IE hardly ever pops , in fact I can't recall the last time that it did. I also made IE NOT check to see if its the default browser, although I cant imagine that makes a difference
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Tue, Feb 15 2005 1:09 PM
Just as an example, when I CTRL-F5 in VS.NET to build and debug, up pops IE. Can't find the setting to disable this.
Charles Fisher wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Wed, Feb 16 2005 8:15 AM
No IE popups here (except with Windows Update and MSN messenger).

In VS.NET, you have to right-click on a file, select "Browse With...", and add an entry for Firefox. After that, you can set it as the default so anytime you debug or view in a browser, it pops up in Firefox. :)

Like Ben, Firefox is my default browser. Just to be safe, I installed the "View in IE" extension just in case I have no choice but to view pages/sites in IE (i.e., online banking).
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Wed, Feb 16 2005 8:20 AM
You sure about that Charles? I can't seem to get the ALT-F5 to pop up FF. Could just be that I'm in too much of a hurry to figure it out, but I haven't been able to so far...
Charles Fisher wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Wed, Feb 16 2005 8:30 AM
Absolutely positive... just did it.

Try this:

1) Right-click on webform and select "Browse With..."

2) Click "Add" button.

3) Click "Browse" and browse to the Firefox executable. Change the friendly name if you like. Click "OK" when you're done.

4) The item you added should now be in the list. Click it once. Then click "Set As Default"

5) Your item should now look like "Firefox (Default)".

6) Click "Close."

Everything should be good from there. I just reset everything on mine and I can flop back and forth between firefox and IE (after changing the default browser accordingly - step 4).
Charles Fisher wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Wed, Feb 16 2005 8:33 AM
If you have any problems, hit me up on Messenger. :)
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Wed, Feb 16 2005 1:07 PM
Charles, have you done this, then tried CTRL-F5? Try that, and let me know.
TrackBack wrote re: I Don't Care About IE 7
on Thu, Feb 17 2005 6:43 AM
Charles Fisher wrote re: Just when I thought I was out, IE pulls me back in
on Fri, Feb 18 2005 7:03 AM
Brendan,

Yes, I did. I tried it before I posted on 2/16/2005 8:30 AM (one with all the steps). Only thing missing from the steps is to make sure Firefox is the default browser (via Firefox -> Tools -> General) and IE is not default browser (via IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs).

Also look at Start -> Set Program Access and Defaults. I have Custom selected with "Use my current Web browser" and both IE and firefox enabled. It may be possible your system has "Microsoft" selected which forces everything to use MS software.

I'm running WinXP with SP2.

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