John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Fri Jan 18 15:05:54 CST 2013
HI Arthur, It sounds like you need to use Windows Default Program Manger to assign the default program. Control Panel | Programs I think you'll figure it out from there. Good luck! John B. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 9:20 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Detecting the default browser I am in the process of downloading the latest beta of a product that I use. (I won't name it.) What puzzles me is that when I receive notifications that a new build is available for download, and click on the URLs to download the files, MS Internet Explorer is invoked, rather than Chrome, which is already open! There must be some simple way to detect what I've identified as my default browser; after all, every rare time that Internet Explorer is invoked, it can tell it's not my default -- it asks me every time whether I'd like to make it the default! So why can't other software vendors do the same? I also occasionally run FireFox, and it too notes that it is not my default browser This is also the case when I reply to certain emails. For example, I just decided to comment on one of Cringely's articles, and Outlook was invoked, even though gmail was already open. -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com