[X Newbies] Trouble with Default Browser

[Birgit Rhoads]

Are you sure that the mail program you are using is OS X?  Just a thought
that you could be clicking on a OS 9 mail program and didn't notice the
multicolored apple in the menu bar.

Birgit

> 
> 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