Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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Spaceboy
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Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

Post by Spaceboy »

When I try to open a link from another program such as thunderbird, the link does not open in firefox. Instead I get the following message:

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This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action.  Create an association in the folder options control panel


Any idea how to fix the problem?
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trolly
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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Spaceboy
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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Firefox already set as default
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trolly
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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Try to set e.g. IE as default browser and then back to Firefox. Maybe a windows setting is broken.
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Spaceboy
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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Tried that. Same problem still.
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

Post by Spaceboy »

Ok, it appears to work in Outlook, but links in Thunderbird won't open.
Amby19
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

Post by Amby19 »

Spaceboy wrote:Ok, it appears to work in Outlook, but links in Thunderbird won't open.


I'm having the exact same problem, and it only started when I installed Thunderbird 3.0. I also just switched to Firefox 3.5.6, so that may be involved in this, too.

Any ideas?
hotstart13
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

Post by hotstart13 »

"links won't open"

is FF already running when you try to open the link, or is FF dead at the time?
olik27
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

Post by olik27 »

right click the Link

click Open Link In Browser
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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If you're asking me (Amby19), hotstart13, my problem seems to have been fixed by following the instructions Daifne provided here.

Don't ask me why, because Firefox was already set as the default browser (and always has been on my computers for years), but once I entered "[MyPath]firefox.exe -silent -setDefaultBrowser" as instructed at the page pointed to by Daifne (Force Firefox to make itself the default), hyperlinks started opening properly again.

But to answer your question, FF was already running when I tried it previously. Perhaps TB 3.0 needed to start FF itself before it would work properly?

At any rate, the problem seems to be gone.
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Re: Hyperlinks not opening in firefox

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olik27 wrote:right click the Link

click Open Link In Browser

That did not work, either. I tried it a dozen times with different links.

But as I wrote above, it works like it used to now.
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