Ticket #375 (closed Defect: wontfix)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 4 months ago

Web buttons don't open default browser on Vista

Reported by: KSMarksPsych Assigned to: romw
Priority: Minor Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Manager Version:
Keywords: vista browser Cc:

Description

Vista Home Premium BOINC 5.10.18 (but it's been around a while) Firefox 2.0.0.6

If you click any of the web buttons in the manager, IE is automatically opened despite Firefox being my default browser.

It's also been reported to me via the help desk (I reassured the user he didn't do anything wrong and that the developers were aware of the issue).

I see there's a report of it over at Seti in the last few days.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=41368

For me, Google Talk, Skype and Thunderbird are able to open links in Firefox. A plain old locally written html file also opens in Firefox. Trillian will only open in IE.

I've checked and double checked every place I can think of where Vista might be setting the browser preference.

Change History

08/21/07 09:18:18 changed by Nicolas

  • keywords set to vista browser.

08/21/07 15:46:21 changed by Didactylos

wxWidgets is looking in the wrong place. Here's an excellent explanation of the new Vista way: How Does Your Browser Know that It’s Not The Default?

For a temporary workaround, see here: http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/showpost.php?p=695582&postcount=25

Start -> Default Programs (under control panel)

Then select "Set program access and set defaults for this computer"

Choose custom, and expand it. The default selection is "Use my current web browser" (which may already be Firefox). Change it specifically to "Mozilla Firefox" and click OK.

Note: This is not the same as setting your default browser.

(follow-up: ↓ 4 ) 10/15/07 15:56:53 changed by Nicolas

Has anybody reported this to WxWidgets? devs?

(in reply to: ↑ 3 ) 10/15/07 15:57:34 changed by Nicolas

Agh, stupid automatic wikilinks... That will teach me to preview before posting.

03/05/09 12:46:15 changed by romw

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

Looks like a wxWidget issue, it'll get fixed when they get it fixed.

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