Pat,
I rather think that this is a problem with IE7 rather than any other
program. I have experienced the same myself and as yet have not found a
satisfactory way of overcoming it.
Resetting IE7 as the default seems to help but only in the short term and it
soon stops responding to email links etc.
Ron Ferguson
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From: "Pat Hickin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Default browser etc in Options>Customize>Launch
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:22:29 -0400
Dave,
Thanks so much. Windows told me to go to IE (if it had 4,5,6 and gave no
instructions for 7, which is what I have). IE says it is NOT my default
browser; Firefox says it IS my default browser. Which is the way I want
it.
However, when I click ANY link in ANY email, NOTHING happens (includes
those at the bottom of your email). I have to cut and paste the url.
On the other hand, when I'm on an Internet site, the browser DOES go to the
site I click on. Though of course there are times when the url is not
shown, but the message says, e.g. "click here to go to . . . " and I click
on here but nothing will happen; at other times I'm taken to wherever
without a problem. I haven't been very observant about when this does/does
not happen.
Should you respond to this off-list? Or should I just try to get help from
MicroSoft or Legacy Support and not bother you!!?
My computer does weird things anyway (when I was typing the preceding line,
it wanted to do it in all-caps. I had to put the cap locks key ON to get
it to type lowercase. This and other paragraphs worked just as they should
in re cap/lc!!!)
Also, in Legacy when I click on Internet>Legacy Home Page and get the "no
default browser" message, and click on OK, nothing happens -- whereas it
used to go ahead and take me to the Home Page anyway (same with the other
Internet options).
SO-O-O, I decided to go ahead and put in Firefox as my ALTERNATE BROWSER in
Legacy's Options>Customize>Launch. However, even though I can put my
cursor in the Alternate Web Browser space, and get a flashing straight
vertical line, it will not accept single character I type. If I click on
the "Launch" button, nothing happens. If I click on the "Change" button, I
am taken to a folder I created "L_MULTIMEDIA BU," which is in another
folder I created "1L BU 20060808-1248," which is in the "Data" folder
inside the Legacy folder, which is directly on my C drive rather than
inside my Program Files. SO-O-O I don't know HOW to enter a default
browser.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Naylor
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Default browser etc in Options>Customize>Launch
On 29 Aug 2007 Pat Hickin wrote:
> Lately, when I access the Internet directly from Legacy, I get a
> message saying I don't have a "default browser."
<snipped>
> So where DO I enter the default? and how, e.g. IE7 or do I have to
> write it out? Do I give the version number etc.?
It's entered in your operating system (Windows?), but this sounds
very strange to me.
What happens if you click on one of the links at the bottom of this
message -- does it open up that web page in your "default browser"?
If it does then you have a default browser and Legacy should be using
it. If not, then in Windows (assuming you use Windows) you need to
click on Settings > Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs tab >
Default Web browser.
Cheers, -- Dave N.
--
David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada.
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