I never use IE if I can avoid it.
Since I upgraded to Firefox 2.0, when I use a link in an email to get to some sites (such as Netflix), it now opens with IE 7.
I looked all through FF Options and can’t see any way to stop that. Any suggestions?
Check your email application. It may default to using IE when you click on an embedded email link.
Do you have the IE View plug-in installed? Check in Tools/add-ons.
Right, it’s called IE Tab, and it’s a great extension. IF you have it installed, there’s an Icon in the bottom right corner of your status bar that looks like the Firefox favicon.
…Firefox 2.o.o.1 was available and an upgrade self installed today 12/20/2006 
Thanks for the suggestions, but I found out what the problem was on the Firefox forum. Somehow I got the stupid IE7 downloaded against my wishes, and that was what causes the problem.
By uninstalling IE7, it automatically reverts back to IE6, and that does not cause the same problem. It was a better version anyhow, the 7.0 was a monstrosity.
Thanks, all.
Geoff, you might want to change your Automatic Updates settings to “Notify Me” so that Microsoft doesn’t silently install IE7 again.
[QUOTE=StruanGeoff, you might want to change your Automatic Updates settings to “Notify Me” so that Microsoft doesn’t silently install IE7 again.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Struan, I did that right after I found I’d been upgraded to 7.0! Now I just log on to the Updates site a couple times a week.
It is good advice for anybody, however, as far too many of their updates are not needed if you don’t use certain MS programs.
No, it isn’t the downloading of IE7 that caused the problem. It is the fact that Microsoft has setup IE so that when it installs, it sets itself up as your default internet browser.
When you install it manually, you can click off the option that says ‘make IE your default browser’. Then IE will be on your machine, but the default browser started by email links, etc. will be the one you selected – Firefox in your case. (Except that certain programs–Quicken is one example–insist on using IE as a browser, ignoring what you’ve chosen.)
Windows Update (if you start it from the Start menu) and some other MS stuff always uses IE7 too I believe.
Rather than uninstall IE7 you can just reset the default Tools/Options/General and hit the Check Now button to set Firefox to be default again.
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Windows Update uses IE (it won’t work on non-MS browsers), but at the moment, it doesn’t specifically need to be version 7. I expect IE7 will become an absolute requirement for it at some point fairly soon though.
Is this true? Because I want to un-install IE7 but couldn’t find 6 to re-install, and there are a few sites I still have to run on IE to work right.
I don’t know the technicalities of this, but uninstalling IE7 leaves you with IE6 as if IE6 has been there (hidden, maybe) all along. IE is very tightly integrated into the OS at any rate.
The IE7 installer should back up your existing installation, so uninstalling should leave you back where you started - I had to uninstall IE7 (twice) and it worked OK for me, but I have heard about people for whom it did not work and although they were left with IE6, their internet/network connection was broken.
If you can’t find an entry for IE7 in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel (even if you check the ‘show updates’ checkbox), you can still uninstall IE7 by running \Windows\IE7\spuninst\spuninst.exe - at your own risk, obviously.
I think this will help. That is how change my links to open with FireFox
Go to 'tools–> ‘options’ –> at the bottom it say check if Firefox is the default browser then click ‘check now’
