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(solved) When I try to use IE, Firefox opens and finds the site instead. How do I stop it?

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johnjeanyus
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When I try to use IE, Firefox starts up and takes the address from IE and opens it in Firefox. I need to use both browsers. How do I stop this?

When I try to use IE, Firefox starts up and takes the address from IE and opens it in Firefox. I need to use both browsers. How do I stop this?

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John99
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I imagine you have Firefox set as the default browser. Unset that in firefox

  • Tools -> Options -> |Advanced| -> |General| -> system ...
    and uncheck the option to always check that Firefox is the default browser
  • now open IE and use IE's settings to set that as the default browser

Now if for instance you open an internet link, or a HTML file on your Windows XP desktop they should open in IE

Post back with how you get on.

johnjeanyus
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I had already tried your suggestion and it didn't help. So I removed and re-installed IE8 and that cured it. I do thank you for your help and glad there are nice people like you helping others. John

John99
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Thanks for posting back to say how the problem was solved. Unfortunately currently you are not allowed to mark your own answers as a solution, although that may change.