TSGL: Changing browsers

[Russell W. Coover]

I obviously misunderstood your original question. Your question seemed to be
asking how to open Internet Explorer if Firefox was your default browser,
and secondarily, how to make IE your default browser. 

But your answer is that IE opens in Google. Evidently, when your computer
was first set up, Google was set up as your "home" page, and IE will always
open up in Google unless you go into Internet Explorer "Properties" and to
the General tab and change the page to something else. 

By the way, if you really do want to change to IE as your default browser
and it is not asking you if you wish to have it as the default browser, the
way to do this is to open Internet Explorer Properties (if you don't know
how, you will find this in the Control Panel) and go to the "Programs" tab
where you will find a way to properly do that. 

But is what you really want (and I suspect that you do) is to open an IE
page if Firefox is not rendering the page correctly, is to use a Firefox
Add-on such as IE Tab. It is easy to use. There is one problem, however, and
this is a problem with Firefox in general, and that is whenever Firefox is
upgraded, the upgrade may (and often does) break the Add-on. However, most
Add-on authors try to keep up with the upgrades and will upgrade the Add-on
quickly to work. 

Russ Coover

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Sylvia Gould
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:35 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Changing browsers

Doesn't happen.  When clicked on, it just brings up Google, which is the 
opening page set for it.

At 02:32 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
>Sylvia,
>
>One of the Icons on the Quick Launch toolbar should be the lower case "e"
>which MS uses for the Internet Explorer Icon. Click on it, and IE will
open.
>You will then get a message that IE is not your default Browser and it will
>ask you if you wish to make it your default browser.
>
>
>
>Russ Coover
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
>Behalf Of Sylvia Gould
>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:01 AM
>To: List at tsgserver.com
>Subject: TSGL: Changing browsers
>
>My computer is set up to automatically use Firefox. However, I find many
>times only IE will open a particular website. I was told there is an icon
>somewhere to switch browsers "in midstream" but can't locate it. I have
>tried copying  the address in a newly opened IE address bar, but that
>doesn't always work. Where do I go to make IE my default? Thanks.
>Windows XP, Home Edition
>Sylvia Gould
>
>
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