[X Newbies] Trouble with Default Browser

[David Boag]

What email client are you using?

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 08:48  AM, Mac OS X Newbies wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:47:47 -0500
> From: Robert roehner <snopple at mac.com>
> 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
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