Hi Harold,

Your first message came through.

Glad you got it worked out.  Sorry for the confusion about where the
extension settings are.  I don't have Firefox 1.5 installed anywhere
anymore.  You really should upgrade to version 2.  The only problem you
would have is if one of your extensions doesn't work in version 2 and there
are ways around that. Most of the most popular extensions have been updated.
At least the ones I use have.

To make Firefox your default browser, look in the options for a check box
that says check to see if Firefox is the default browser. In version 2 it's
on the main options tab.  I don't know about 1.5.  You might also want to go
into Internet Explorer and uncheck the box that has IE check to see if it is
the default browser which is on the programs page in internet options. 

Ben Moore


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Harold B.
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Saving Firefox as Firefox webpage

Then my real question is how to make Firefox my default browser without 
re-installing Firefox where I think, if I remember correctly, one is then 
given a choice?

I know I've seen this answered somewhere before so another question would 
be: Without bringing it up in a forum such as PCWorks, where on the internet

or in "help" would I find this information? The question seems so elementary

that I should have the independence to get that information myself.
>
> Interesting question, Harold. It is saved as a FF web page. Any file with 
> the extension "htm" or "html" is seen by your computer as a web page. In 
> your case the icon shows as IE, because IE is currently your default 
> browser (Sometimes this gets screwed up when you change browsers). If you 
> set FF as your default browser, the icons will change, but there will be 
> no change in the file at all.

> The larger point is that the icons are just a convenience. They show which

> program will open a given file by default, but you can always use the 
> Right-click "Open with" option to open a file in another program, or just 
> open the program first, then navigate to the file in question. Many long 
> time Windows users have no idea of this concept, and I don't know why. ---

> Hugh Vandervoort
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