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I am having problems with yahoo and java script – contacted yahoo and they said that my problem was java script was disabled.

Finally found that if I start Yahoo from firefox – everything is ok (both yahoo mail and Yahoo IM. I have FF marked in firefox as the default browser. I have a Yahoo mail icon and a Yahoo IM icon on desktop. If I start mail or IM from these icons, they start under IE. I can not figure out how to stop this.

If Yahoo mail or Yahoo IM start from the icons (running under IE and not specifically from ff )- they do not work properly – they have the problems that Yaho identified as not having Java Script enabled.

Two questions –
How can I force Yahoo to use FF no matter how it is started????
How do I make sure that IE will not start except when I want it to? I only have it around to solve some quirky wmv problems

OBTW – I am pretty sure part of these problems are caused by the FF extension called “Noscript” but the only way I can make any thing work is to run “Noscript with scripts globally allowed.

Thanks

Tom

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(Edited by jscher2000 on 03-Oct-06 12:27. Note added.)

I use NoScript, but my use of Yahoo! is limited to Yahoo.com, no desktop stuff or toolbars.

How were the desktop icons created? For example, are they “.url” shortcuts, the kind you can create by dragging the favicon in the address bar to your desktop? Or do they run some local Yahoo! program?

If they are ordinary shortcuts/favorites, then they should open in your default browser, and if Firefox is your default browser, their icon normally will be the Firefox-on-a-white-page graphic. Does that match what you see?

Added: You can force Firefox to be your default browser under Tools>Options…, General area, “Check Now” button.

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this is one of them

C:WINNTsystem32RUNDLL32.EXE C:PROGRA~1Yahoo!CommonYMMAPI~1.DLL,OpenURL http://mail.yahoo.com/?.redir=ymmapi9

This is the other

FilesYahoo!MessengerYahooMessenger.exe”

Tom

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Those look like Yahoo! program shortcuts. Do they have their own configuration panel that lets you choose Firefox as your default browser??

For mail, you could create your own “Favorite-style” shortcut either using the method mentioned in my post above, or by dragging from Firefox’s bookmarks menu to the desktop.

For IM, I have no idea.

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I have a friend who has somehow set up his computer so that whenever a website tries to open in IE, it opens in Firefox instead. Even if you open IE and type something into the address bar, it opens in Firefox when you hit Enter (or “Go”). I’ve asked him how he does it and he can’t remember(!) but will try to track it down tonight…

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Waggers

See my post 605,303 for the answer. I went into an absolute tiz afterwards as I thought ” How do I get back IE as my default” I thought this because of my work.

To get the reset to work simply click the IE icon and it will ask if you want IE as default , simply say yes and it reverts to the original. Obviously use my hotfix to revert to Firefox Hope that helps…

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Thanks Jezza, but all that does is set Firefox as the default browser (which you can do from within Firefox anyway, without needing to use Start|Run). My friend’s setup is such that even if he opens Internet Explorer itself and types something into the address bar, his IE window will close and the website will open in Firefox.

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Is this specific websites, or all?
Just wondering if it may have something to do with the file-type associations, but I can’t imagine how…

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I think it’s everything.

(Personally I’d rather keep IE opening sites in IE as otherwise testing would be a nightmare!)

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Gotcha

I misunderstood….but on my home PC I have set my default browser as FF but when I click on links in Word or Outlook it automatically goes to IE. This fix seems to override this and it opens in FF …or is that what your thing does

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Tom

Try this:

Tried and tested.

Go to Start | Run and type in:

firefox.exe -silent -nosplash -setDefaultBrowser

This can now show FF when you click on emails, outlook , word docs etc

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