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Topic: Save To Desktop": IE vs Firefox - PAIN |
Chip Fossa
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Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 21 Apr 2006 6:03 pm |
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I have had a number of websites saved to my desktop [many from the Forum].
They were saved there a while back via IE and before I started using Firefox, exclusively.
Tonite I decided to switch these websites from IE to Firefox and then to re-save them to DESKTOP.
After moving a few, I decided to click on one and just check things out. Much to my surprise, it popped up on IE.
WHY???
Also, Firefox doesn't seem to have a way to just save a website to desktop. It's more like "SAVE AS", and you wind up with a big IE
blue "E" with an accompanying manila folder.
What gives with this?
I don't want to have to save these sites on BOOKMARKS because BMs is already getting overloaded.
Please help, one and all.
Thanks----Chipper |
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Jon Bergh
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2006 5:22 am
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Sounds like you've got some sort of setting that says any .html file (or whatever you're saving as) is supposed to open with IE.
That's pretty standard.
You should be able to change it. On a Mac, I just get the File Info and choose what app I want as the defaul handler for .html files. Not sure how to do it on Windows.
The icons change to reflect the chosen app.
Now, apart from that (and again I'm not sure what happens on Windows), it sounds odd to me that you'd need to open and re-save anything. When I save a page I get a .html file (and maybe a folder containing images). I can drop that on IE or Firefox or any other browser, or even Word, or anything that will read .html and it all works fine.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2006 12:10 pm
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Open Firefox. Click on the Tools menu item, then on Options. When the Options window opens click on the General tab. There is a checkbox labeled: "Default Browser: Firefox should check to see if it is the default browser when starting." Check that box, then click the Check Now button and act as necessary to set Firefox as the default browser. Click OK to close the Options box.
Next, open Internet Explorer, go to it's menu item Tools > Internet Options and open the Options. Click on the Programs tab. At the bottom there is a checkbox labeled: "Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser." UNCHECK that box, then click APPLY, then OK. Close Internet Explorer.
Now, double-click on those desktop URL Icons and see if they open in Firefox. If they still open in IE post back here and we'll try more fixes.
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Apr 2006 3:35 am
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Wiz, that did the trick.
I guess my only other beef is that for every save there are 2 icons. 1 IE "E" and 1 yellow folder. Takes up space. When saved from IE, tho, there's only 1 icon.
I tried to delete just the yellow folder, but the 2 icons are enmeshed. That doesn't work.
I guess that's just the way it is.
Thanks too, Jon, for your reply.[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 23 April 2006 at 04:37 AM.] |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Apr 2006 3:53 am
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| OK - I found you can put the Firefox icon in the folder, now making just 1 icon [duh]. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2006 8:06 am
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| Why not make just one folder for all of your saved web pages, and drag all of the icons into it? |
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Chip Fossa
From:
Monson, MA, USA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Apr 2006 6:34 pm
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b0b.......that was exactly what I was planning to do. You got me again. Love ya. And all you guys. Sometimes the simplest things just evade ya. (Am I Alone Here?)
Thanks all. |
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