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Vitae
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Location: New York
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 Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:25 pm
force #URL to use FireFox with IE set as Default?
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Was wondering if there was a way to force #URL to open Firefox rather than IE.
I don't have the option of setting Firefox as the default browser for work related reasons. |
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Zugg
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Joined: 25 Sep 2000
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Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:00 am
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Nope, zMUD calls your default browser. You might be able to do something with the #DDE stuff (see the help file), or by launching Firefox directly with #LAUNCH if it can accept command line arguments. Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't have any Windows COM-based interface that I'm aware of (because it's cross platform and not just for Windows).
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Vitae
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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 673
Location: New York
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:40 am
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Perfect!
#LAUNCH {"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "www.mozilla.org"} |
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Zhiroc
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:58 am
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This seems to work, but I didn't reset my default web browser:
#DDE Firefox WWW_OpenURL http://www.zuggsoft.com |
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ralgith
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:30 pm
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Both of those methods will work, though I myself prefer #LAUNCH. Not that Firefox isn't my default browser anyways ;)
I have an alias called ieurl that forces something to open in IE (I've used it maybe twice... gah IE sucks!)
#ALIAS ieurl {#LAUNCH {"Path to IE here" "%-1"} |
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Vitae
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:52 pm
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| ralgith wrote: |
| gah IE sucks! |
Agreed, but when the sites that I use for work require that IE be used because they are to stupid to make it work for FireFox as well....well, no choice in the matter :-) And i know default has nothing to do with opening IE, but sometimes i need to open html files and that needs to be in IE...whole load of crap that prevents me from changing the default.
I have the IE Tab addon in FireFox, but it don't always work 100% with the sites or I'd always use FireFox. ;-) |
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ralgith
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:44 pm
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Well, if its because of ActiveX... Even more reason to hate it! :D
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