Odd Computer behavior ...

[campy]

I just fired up Microsoft Internet Explorer for the first time in weeks to look at something, and every time I selected a site from my Favorites menu, it would load in Firefox instead of IE. Anyone have any idea why that happened? (Firefox is my default browser.) I don't remember that ever happening before.

[jeriddian]

I just fired up Microsoft Internet Explorer for the first time in weeks to look at something, and every time I selected a site from my Favorites menu, it would load in Firefox instead of IE. Anyone have any idea why that happened? (Firefox is my default browser.) I don't remember that ever happening before.

Hmmmm................not sure, but it may be exactly that, that Firefox is your default browser. I can't explain why it didn't do it before, but it would appear some parameter in the OS has changed and any preselected sites are now automatically defaulted to open in the default browser. It could have come as part of your automatic updates that regularly come with the OS, but I can't say exactly.

[campy]

I did a web search and found that this has happened to other people. The suggested fix is to uninstall and then reinstall IE7 ... but I can't uninstall IE7 unless I first uninstall XP Service Pack 3.

Maybe upgrading to IE8 would fix things.

Oh well, between Mozilla and Safari and Opera and Google Chrome, I'm not hurting for browsers.

[Rob]

I haven't had any problem with IE8, except that I've had to install the Google Toolbar to import my bookmarks. Because, for some reason, IE7 and IE8 on my computer would say it imported my bookmarks from Firefox, but then it wouldn't display them at all, and I couldn't find them within IE.

Really, I only use IE for sites with media content that won't work with the other browsers. I only really need it for Netflix, and for radio stations whose streaming audio will only work in IE. (If they'd just shunt the media to Windows Media Player or RealPlayer, like many sites used to just a few years ago, I wouldn't have to do that... but, no, everybody's gotta have proprietary crap these days.)

[campy]

Usually when I want IE, I just use the IE Tab add-on for Firefox, which opens IE inside Firefox. The only reason I opened the browser today was because I don't have a shortcut to ARA in Firefox.

[campy]

Update: I upgraded my IE7 to IE8, but still had the problem. Today I searched for a solution again and this time I found one: deleting a certain key in the Windows Registry seems to have fixed things (so far).