Default browser, search needs tweaking

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Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by golderm » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:33 pm

Hey all,

I'I've somehow upset Firefox as the default browser and everything opens in IE, hitting make default does not work and if I fire up Add / Remove Programs then Set program Access and Defaults Frontmotion firefox isn't in the list of browsers.

Can anyone help, scenario is Frontmotion Firefox CE, running as a non-admin account (for security and because I'm troubleshooting this for a non-tech user)

I did try searching the forum but it told me the following words were too common: firefox default browser :(

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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by Ariannus » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:50 pm

I'm having the same problem. I updated from 3.0.3 to 3.0.6 and now all of the systems are defaulting to IE.

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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by sstanai » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:37 am

Same here. The default browser setting doesn't stick. It isn't on all installations though, and I can't determine why. I've had to manually edit the file type setting so that the system uses Firefox instead of IE, but this isn't feasible on a large deployment.

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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by golderm » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:43 am

I'm seeing it on more and more of my installations :(

Hopefully 3.0.7 will have some sort of fix? Please?

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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by DraconPern » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:07 pm

Is this problem on XP or Vista?
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Post by DraconPern » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:21 pm

Alright I found the cause of the problem. The packager version is slighty different from the from the working normal version (not yet posted). So for now, I have moved that back. The only thing you i'll loose is branding within the program, just like 3.0.3. Hit the rebuild for your packages to get the update.
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Post by golderm » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:27 am

Hooray, thanks DraconPern, so this will take effect when 3.0.7 is available?

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Post by DraconPern » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:54 am

Yup!
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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by golderm » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:49 am

Excellent, look forward to the release, keep up the good work!

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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by malte_s » Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:36 am

FWIW,

we were recently updating from a 2.x version to 3.0.6 via GPO on Win2k and WinXP machines with the result that the default browser was reset to IE. However, there was an error in that setting as the registry keys referred to a non-existant C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE while the correct path would have been C:\Programme\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE. As a result, the systems were left with no working default browser at all :-(
After modifying the MSI to an INSTALLLEVEL of >= 4, it still didn't work and curiously, when manuyll opening the MSI and choosing "Modify", the default browser feature was set to "Installed on first use", which doesn't really make sense for just a set of registry settings.
Anyway, 3.0.7 fixes the problem and our users are able to open shortcuts again :-)

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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by DraconPern » Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:13 am

Please note that there's a default browser issue with 3.0.7 that is on the site right now! It is not able to set firefox as default when the user asks for it. This also effects the 'Set Program Access and Default'. I am regenerating the packages as we speak and will get those up as soon as possible. For the packager service, you can simply rebuild to get the new version.
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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by mikesol » Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:29 am

Is the 3.0.7 CE on the site now the updated one?

I'd like to push this out to my users as most of them ended up running IE out of, well, stupidity since the default browser changed to that when I rolled out 3.0.6.

I've fixed a bunch of their default browsers by hand but I'd rather just mash out an update that does it for everyone.

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Post by DraconPern » Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:05 pm

They are all fixed!
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Re: Default browser, search needs tweaking

Post by golderm » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:53 am

Thanks Dracon!

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