OT A little help with needed OE please

OT A little help with needed OE please

I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open website
links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant (which is basically
a front end for IE). This is because a lot of viruses might to be getting in
through IE. Can anyone tell me how to do it? - I've tried some of the
obvious things through the Control Panel, but without success so far.

Thanks,

Tony D

Re: OT A little help with needed OE please

Tony Done wrote:
> I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open website
> links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant (which is basically
> a front end for IE). This is because a lot of viruses might to be getting in
> through IE. Can anyone tell me how to do it? - I've tried some of the
> obvious things through the Control Panel, but without success so far.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony D
>
>
>

Just use Seamonkey.

--
Les Cargill

Re: OT A little help with needed OE please

On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:48:04 GMT, "Tony Done" <tonydone@bigpond,com > wrote:

>I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open website
>links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant (which is basically
>a front end for IE). This is because a lot of viruses might to be getting in
>through IE. Can anyone tell me how to do it? - I've tried some of the
>obvious things through the Control Panel, but without success so far.

I don't think you can force Outlook Express to use an alternative browser.
OE will always use the default browser though. Make Firefox the default
browser and it should work.

Re: OT A little help with needed OE please


"Tony Done" <tonydone@bigpond,com > wrote in message
news:o45Tj.7289$ko5.968@news-server.bigpond,net .au...
>I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open website
> links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant (which is
> basically
> a front end for IE). This is because a lot of viruses might to be getting
> in
> through IE. Can anyone tell me how to do it? - I've tried some of the
> obvious things through the Control Panel, but without success so far.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony D
>
>
>

Thanks for the replies, a minor adjustment to Firefox fixed it.

Tony D

Re: OT A little help with needed OE please

On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:48:04 +0000, Tony Done wrote:

> I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open website
> links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant (which is basically
> a front end for IE). This is because a lot of viruses might to be getting in
> through IE. Can anyone tell me how to do it? - I've tried some of the
> obvious things through the Control Panel, but without success so far.

Firefox has to be your default browser. Also you could look for a MIME
type setting URL for Firefox somewhere. I'm not on a Windows box right now
so I can't tell you exactly but I have done it.

Re: OT A little help with needed OE please



Meat Plow wrote:
> On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:48:04 +0000, Tony Done wrote:
>
>> I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open
>> website links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant
>> (which is basically a front end for IE). This is because a lot of
>> viruses might to be getting in through IE. Can anyone tell me how to
>> do it? - I've tried some of the obvious things through the Control
>> Panel, but without success so far.
>
> Firefox has to be your default browser. Also you could look for a MIME
> type setting URL for Firefox somewhere. I'm not on a Windows box
> right now so I can't tell you exactly but I have done it.

If FF is your default browser, it just happens. Outlook Ex doesn't know
what browser it's opening AFAIK.

Don

Re: OT A little help with needed OE please


"Don Evans" <gtrdonevans@aol,com > wrote in message
news:3dadnWNtwJl-u4PVnZ2dnUVZ_tSknZ2d@comcast,com ...
>
>
> Meat Plow wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:48:04 +0000, Tony Done wrote:
>>
>>> I use Outlook Express for both mail and news, and I want to open
>>> website links in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer or Avant
>>> (which is basically a front end for IE). This is because a lot of
>>> viruses might to be getting in through IE. Can anyone tell me how to
>>> do it? - I've tried some of the obvious things through the Control
>>> Panel, but without success so far.
>>
>> Firefox has to be your default browser. Also you could look for a MIME
>> type setting URL for Firefox somewhere. I'm not on a Windows box
>> right now so I can't tell you exactly but I have done it.
>
> If FF is your default browser, it just happens. Outlook Ex doesn't know
> what browser it's opening AFAIK.
>
> Don
>

Thanks, it was just a small thing I had wrong in the set up. Works fine now
as far as I can tell, and seems to be solving the virus problem.

Tony D