I get a "locate link browser" message after updating Avast
Firefox is my browser of choice. I recently updated my Avast! antivirus. In the process, it automatically installed Google Chrome. I promptly uninstalled Chrome. Since then, from Outlook 2003, clicking on a link results in a "locate link browser" message and Firefox does not open. In Windows XP, I have gone into folder options, file types and there is no URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol. Neither can I add it because it is not in the drop-down list. I run regedit to try to delete four files called for in various help sites, but none of them are there. What can I do now without setting Internet Explorer as my default browser?
Chosen solution
Try to undo and redo Firefox as the default browser.
Make another browser like IE the default browser and then let Firefox do it again.
See:
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox
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Chosen Solution
Try to undo and redo Firefox as the default browser.
Make another browser like IE the default browser and then let Firefox do it again.
See:
Some users have had to go through the exercise of reinstalling Chrome before they can get Windows to switch this setting successfully. I really don't understand how Chrome changes these settings in a way that normal Windows solutions don't work.
I did this, but I also downloaded the latest version of Firefox, and now everything works fine.