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DarthSaruman
Before Me You Tremble
join:2002-06-28
Warren, MI

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[XPPro] Firefox is sometimes opening IE?

I hope I have the correct forum...On my wife's computer sometimes when she clicks on firefox to open it...it starts IE...she will close IE and click on firefox again and it will open firefox correctly...this only happens sometimes...any ideas...I have ran a ton of different scans and no viruses/malware/rootkits/etc were found...thank you all in advance...

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howardfine
join:2002-08-09
Saint Louis, MO

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It might depend on the file. What is it? If it's a Windows specific file, Firefox might not be set to open it automatically and that's why it gets sent off to IE. But this can be changed.

Now, why it opens in FF on the second click, I'm not sure.
DarthSaruman
Before Me You Tremble
join:2002-06-28
Warren, MI

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she is clicking the the shortcut for Firefox and its opening IE...but this only happens once...I am not at home right now...

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art22gg
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Courtenay, BC

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Is firefox her default browser??...If not, probably why this is happening..

»support.mozilla.org/en-U ··· s/670644
DarthSaruman
Before Me You Tremble
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Warren, MI

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ok I will have to check later on today...I will let you know what happened...thanks...

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19579823 (banned)
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Sounds like something might be wrong with the shortcut...

Try deleting it and re-creating another one



Good luck my friend!