[wpkg-users] Make Firefox the default browser?

[Matt Miller]

Jean-Jacques,
Your fix works! It's great!
One hitch; .htm files still have an IE icon and not a Firefox icon... 
They open in Firefox though. Rename the file with .html for the 
extension and it gets a Firefox icon.
Weird.
Anyone have a fix?  : )

Now more questions that might be off-topic for this list.
What does the nsBrowserContentHandler.js file do?
Is there risk of breaking anything when copying the patched version to a 
previous install?



Jean-Jacques Moulis wrote:
> On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:40:21 -0400 Matt Miller <mmiller at solutionsforprogress.com> wrote:
> 
> MM> I'm having a lot of trouble with this...
> MM> Google got me a script that almost works, but I think there are more 
> MM> registry keys to make Firefox the default browser. When you run Firefox 
> MM> it still thinks it's not the default browser, non-admin level users 
> MM> can't set it as default, and there a few html files that still want to 
> MM> open in Notepad when double clicked.
> MM> Anyone want to help with this?
> 
> 
> After installing Firefox with:
> 
> "%WpkgRoot%\Packages\Firefox\Firefox Setup 1.5.0.2.exe" -ms
> 
> Run:
> 
> Set_Firefox_as_default.cmd
> 
> -----------------------Set_Firefox_as_default.cmd--------------------------
> copy %Wpkgroot%\Files\nsBrowserContentHandler.js "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\components"
> "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -CreateProfile default
> "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -setDefaultBrowser -silent

> 
> 
> Add lines 330 331 in the original nsBrowserContentHandler.js
> 
> 
> 326:	    if (cmdLine.handleFlag("preferences", false)) {
> 327:	      openPreferences();
> 328:	      cmdLine.preventDefault = true;
> 329:	    }
> 330:		if (cmdLine.handleFlag("silent", false))
> 331:		cmdLine.preventDefault = true;
> 332:	  },
> 333:	
> 334:	  helpInfo : "  -browser            Open a browser window.\n",
> 335:
> 
> 
> diff nsBrowserContentHandler.js nsBrowserContentHandler.js.orig
> 330,331d329
> <       if (cmdLine.handleFlag("silent", false))
> <       cmdLine.preventDefault = true;
> 
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> The modification of nsBrowserContentHandler.js restore the -silent flag that have been removed.
> As I understand it it will be back "out of the box" in 1.5.0.4
> This solution works at least with 1.5.0.2.
> 
> credits to Dié in this message:
> http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71739&st=0&p=492735&#entry492735
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