Trouble with Default Browser

[David Boag]

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 11:26  AM, David Boag wrote:

>> Subject: [X Newbies] Trouble with Default Browser
>>
>> Hi everybody. I'm a long time Mac user who just last week began using
>> OS X (10.2.3) on our new eMac. Love it. But I do have a question.
>>
>> When someone E-mails me a link, I click on it. If Explorer 5.2.1 (OS
>> X) is running, it will connect like it's supposed to. But if IE 5.2.1
>> is not running, my computer attempts to launch Explorer 5.0 under
>> Classic.
>>
>> IE 5.2.1 is chosen as the default browser in Internet Preferences.
>> Someone suggested I launch Classic and be sure that the correct
>> version of IE is selected in the Internet Control Panel. IE is
>> selected, however no version is specified. When I choose select and
>> navigate through the various folders to get to Jaguars Application
>> Folder, IE will not show up.
>>
>> Just for the heck of it I selected Netscape Navigator as the default
>> browser in OS 9's Internet Control Panel. I went back to OS X and
>> clicked on an E-mail link that someone had sent me. Sure enough my
>> eMac attempted to launch the OS 9 version of Navigator. Not a major
>> problem, but does anyone why this is happening and how to correct it.
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Robert Roehner
>> <snopple at mac.com>
>>
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David R. Boag, DDS
spikedds at bellsouth.net