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Mozilla firefox and internet explorer

Post by Pine » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:41 pm

i downloaded a version of mozilla firefox so i could have 2 different types of internet things in case i wanted to change
now i want to use internet explorer but it wont let me change back to it, it just stays on firefox
anyone know how i can change it back?
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Post by !B a T m A n! » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:57 pm

why would you not want to use fire fox? :O
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Re: Mozilla firefox and internet explorer

Post by Pine » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:02 pm

im just so used to internet explorer and IE runs faster :o
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Post by Kilgore Trout » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:21 pm

tools->internet options->programs->make default

At least that's what I think you want.
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Re: Mozilla firefox and internet explorer

Post by Pine » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:00 pm

is this from the web? cuz if it is i dont have the internet options choice
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Post by mujo » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:27 pm

[quote="iOwn-";p="130735"]
im just so used to internet explorer and IE runs faster :o
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faster? what are you smoking?:shock:
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Post by MrBlah » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:49 pm

I need to reinstall Firefox 3, or maybe go back down to 2.3 as FF3 will not save any more bookmarks or anything... its rather disappointing. BUT.... Firefox or I dont browse.
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Post by Pine » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:25 pm

[quote="mujo";p="130744"][quote="iOwn-";p="130735"]
im just so used to internet explorer and IE runs faster :o
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faster? what are you smoking?:shock:[/quote]
idk.. lol but like icons and stuff load a lot faster when im running IE but everything else moves faster.. like my sig
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Re: Mozilla firefox and internet explorer

Post by Kilgore Trout » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:16 am

[quote="iOwn-";p="130743"]is this from the web? cuz if it is i dont have the internet options choice[/quote]
When I click tools, internet options is at the bottom of the drop-down menu. I think the problem is that you're using IE.
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Re: Mozilla firefox and internet explorer

Post by metacide » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:19 pm

I'm going out on a limb and guessing that you cant even open internet explorer anymore to make it your default browser yeah?

Go to Start -> Run -> type in "iexplore" (without quotes of course) and IE will open up.. Then you can set it back to be your default... you poor poor thing.

Conversely you could stay in the Light and get IE tab for Firefox (an add on that loads internet pages in IE but keeps the Firefox browser). Forsake your heathen ways and stay with FireFox! 8)
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Post by PhantomFighter » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:22 pm

[quote="metacide";p="130900"]
Conversely you could stay in the Light and get IE tab for Firefox (an add on that loads internet pages in IE but keeps the Firefox browser). Forsake your heathen ways and stay with FireFox! 8)
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Amen brother! :D

Mr Blah:

On the FF 3 bookmarks thing it could be a borked profile. You can change your Firefox profile by changing your Firefox shortcut to run:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 2\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager

Start firefox and a profile manager will appear. You don't have to delete you current profile -- just create and use a new one. Then you can try all the functionality that was broken. Hopefully, that should fix the problems. That does mean that you would have to install your desired extensions into your new profile.

You can also export your bookmarks from your old profile (restart Firefox and choose old profile), then import them into the new one.

When you're all done, you can delete the original profile.
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Post by Pine » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:34 pm

i guess im just gonna keep firefox ":)
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Post by regis » Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:43 am

[quote="iOwn-";p="130921"]
i guess im just gonna keep firefox ":)
[/quote]
That's the best solution, IMHO ;)


But if you want to change back to IE as default Web Brower...

First run IE, the go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Select "Programs" tab -> Check the box at the bottom "IE should check to see whether it is the default browser"

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Post by Pine » Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:19 pm

[quote="regis";p="131017"][quote="iOwn-";p="130921"]
i guess im just gonna keep firefox ":)
[/quote]
That's the best solution, IMHO ;)


But if you want to change back to IE as default Web Brower...

First run IE, the go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Select "Programs" tab -> Check the box at the bottom "IE should check to see whether it is the default browser"[/quote]
the problem was was that i couldnt run ie from the desktop and i didnt know how otherwise, but now im used to firefox so no biggie :)
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Re: Mozilla firefox and internet explorer

Post by abiscuit » Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:17 am

I use firefox primarily, but I still use IE occasionally because some websites work better with IE.

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