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Dexanth
Dec 4, 2003

The last thing an ice cream cone ever sees
This is driving me a bit batty. Just updated earlier today and all of a sudden external links aren't opening. Firefox is set as my default browser but anytime I click a link in something like IRC or IM clients, it won't open.

It's definitely something in FF since I just set IE as default, everything opened fine there, swapped FF back and links still won't open.

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Dexanth
Dec 4, 2003

The last thing an ice cream cone ever sees

Toast Museum posted:

So does nothing happen, or does another browser open instead of Firefox? Go to default programs and make sure all applicable defaults are set for Firefox.

Nothing happens at all. I briefly set IE as my default browser to determine if Firefox was the issue, and IE opened things flawlessly. Setting Firefox to default again, and it stopped working.

Bebopaloobop posted:

Make sure you restart Firefox after updating. When Firefox is launched after updating it's elevated to Admin, so programs that aren't elevated can't send links to it.

Trying this to confirm it's not the issue, though I think I've already rebooted FF.

Edit : That seemed to fix it! Thank you so much!

Dexanth fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Oct 4, 2011

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