From: waldo kitty 

"Rich"  wrote in news:41267886{at}w3.nls.net:

ahhh... ok, i'll see about setting a mozilla account and getting them to
use that... will set mozilla as the default and see how it goes... might
take a day or two, though ;)

>    Firefox is broken and doesn't register itself correctly.  This
>    could cause the behavior you see.
>
> Rich
>
>   "waldo kitty"  wrote in message
>   news:Xns954BA92EF3B6Fme42{at}216.144.1.254...
>
>   i've a friend with win98se fully patched... they are trying to move
>   away from IE and have Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox installed...
>   Firefox is the only one set to be the default browser...
>
>   now, here's the tricky part... when they read email in outlook, if
>   there's a url in the email and they click on it, it'll open Firefox
>   first and then IE... both going to the same url... i've looked and
>   looked and looked and can't find anything that would control
>   this... i've gone into everything i can find and turned off the "be
>   the default browser" setting and only enable that in firefox...
>
>   the wierdest part (and we've not figured out the flow that causes
>   it) is that when they try to demonstrate this for me, if they use
>   an email they've already read and visited the url inside, sometimes
>   it opens firefox only as it should...
>
>   it seems to be "new" unread messages that do this double opening of
>   the browser but when working on this yesterday, i even rebooted a
>   couple of times and was still getting the double on messages that
>   we had just tested and visited... older already read messages did
>   give the single browser as desired...
>
>   arggghhh! i'm almost confusing myself just thinking about it...



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