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Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / August 2004I don't want IE as default browser!
Every time I fire up IE5 (which I have to admit is not often) I'm asked if I'd like to make it my default browser. I would not. I have a better default browser, Firefox, which is faster and sleeker, and Safari as a pretty good back-up. Yet when I check the box asking IE not to ask me again, as sure as the sun rises in the east it WILL ask me again. What is this? Desperation? How do I turn off this little irritant? Thanks James Wolfe > Every time I fire up IE5 (which I have to admit is not often) I'm > asked if I'd like to make it my default browser. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > James Wolfe In safari preferences menu under general tab ,you can set your own default webbrowser which will aviod opening IE or anyother browser when you try clicking on any links It has come to our attention that on 5/8/04 7:58 pm, in article 7fbc0396.0408051058.68af864c@posting.google.com, "mahesh S" <smayu77@yahoo.com> wrote: > wolfpelt@firemail.de (John Wolff) wrote in message > news:<1025bdf1.0408041137.30d5c253@posting.google.com>... >> Every time I fire up IE5 (which I have to admit is not often) I'm >> asked if I'd like to make it my default browser. >> >> I would not. I have a better default browser, Firefox, which is faster >> and sleeker, and Safari as a pretty good back-up. >> >> Yet when I check the box asking IE not to ask me again, as sure as the >> sun rises in the east it WILL ask me again. >> >> What is this? Desperation? How do I turn off this little irritant? >> Thanks >> >> James Wolfe > > In safari preferences menu under general tab ,you can set your own > default webbrowser which will aviod opening IE or anyother browser > when you try clicking on any links Thanks for that, Mahesh, but it isn't really the answer to my question. I already have Firefox configured as my default browser. It's just that on occasion I need to see how one of my pages draws in Explorer, so I fire it up. Each and every time an alert box asks: "Would you like to set Internet Explorer as your default browser?" There's a box bottom left that a chap can tick: "Don't show this message again." I tick the box every time and answer "no" to the question. And the very next time I boot IE it DOES show the message again. Coincidence? Dodgy code? Surely that bastion of integrity Microsoft would never stoop to using opt-out boxes that deliberately don't allow a chap to opt out ;-) James Wolfe père |
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