Firefox & IE question

[Passepartout]

OK all you smart people. I've been duly shamed and chastised into reinstalling IE, primarily for Netflix instant movies and Windows Updates. Firefox is my default browser. When I open IE and go to any of my 'favorites', bookmarks, or links, it opens another Firefox window, not IE. How do I get IE to open IE windows and Firefox to open Firefox windows?

Jim Ricks

 

[ausman]

I think that you have to stop Firefox from being the default browser. You need to not have any default browser.

Why Netflix can not support other (better) browsers escapes me.

 

[Icarus]

OK all you smart people. I've been duly shamed and chastised into reinstalling IE, primarily for Netflix instant movies and Windows Updates. Firefox is my default browser. When I open IE and go to any of my 'favorites', bookmarks, or links, it opens another Firefox window, not IE. How do I get IE to open IE windows and Firefox to open Firefox windows?

Jim Ricks

I don't know, but I don't have that problem and FF is my default browser. (I have IE6 with XP SP3).

You have access to IE enabled in 'set program access and defaults', right?

You might try this:

If you want to change that behavior (IE7 is following your preferred browser setting) just set IE7 to open new links in a new tab. Click on Tools-Internet Options. Look for the Tabs section at the bottom- Click on Settings.

Put a check mark in Enable tabbed Browsing, and below that in Enable Quick Tabs (all the rest are optional and don't really need to be checked). Then check "Let Internet Explorer decide how pop ups should open". And "A New Tab in the current window".

Or... Just right click the favorite and select "Open in a New Tab" and it'll open in IE7.

I don't know if that's a "fix" or a "workaround", but it should work for you.

Also, you can install the FF ie-tab add-on and watch using FF as the browser (sort of). Instructions are here:

http://community.netflix.com/forum/topic/show?id=1993323:Topic:10599

I would do both of those, assuming you are using IE7 (for the tabbed browsing feature, not in IE6). If you do both, it won't matter which browser you are using. If you are using IE6, you can just use the FF ie-tab add-on method until you figure what's wrong with your IE settings.

Source for most of this:

http://netflixcommunity.ning.com/forum/topics/ms-internet-explorer-7-opens

-David