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Clicking favorite while in IE opens it in Firefox where it will not work

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For work, I have to log into our etime site. It only works with IE. I click on the link in IE and it opens in a Firefox window. I made IE my default, closed Firefox and it still opened in Firefox. This only started this week. Last week it all worked ok.

For work, I have to log into our etime site. It only works with IE. I click on the link in IE and it opens in a Firefox window. I made IE my default, closed Firefox and it still opened in Firefox. This only started this week. Last week it all worked ok.

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If IE is your default browser, the links definitely should open in IE. Are these links to normal web pages or do they use other protocols, such as file:/// ?

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All of my favorites that are in IE open in Firefox, although the one I was concerned about was an https:// My IT guy says to try upgrading to IE 7. I'm going to try that next.

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Installing IE 7 worked.