Shoutbox

I use firefox as my default browser, messenger 8.5 alway opened hotmail in internet explorer,
since updating to wml 2009 messsenger now opens hotmail in firefox which is a royal pain when using more than one messenger account because you have to keep signing in and out of accounts on firefox.

Does anyone know how i may keep firefox as my default browser but still have wml 2009 messenger open hotmail with internet explorer as it did in messenger 8.5 ?  .

thanks for any ideas,
steve fozz.

Yeah, this is happening to me too. Any suggestions?

firefox will probably be set as the default browser.

in IE go to tools > programs and at the top, there is a button saying "make default".

clicky clicky ;D

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Originally posted by joey
firefox will probably be set as the default browser.

in IE go to tools > programs and at the top, there is a button saying "make default".

clicky clicky ;D

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try reading his post again

he wants firefox as default, but not for messenger (like it use to be)

Hi, I'm having the same exact problem. I have Opera as my default browser... But I have opened my email in on IE forever and thats the way I like it... Is there a fix to this? Its funny though.. I remember in previous version of WLM everybody complained about the lack of support for other browsers and now, it seems that Microsoft paid attention to those complains and made the leap to support the users default browser... It just shows you that its impossible to please everybody.
Well, back on topic, is there a way to keep IE as my default "mail browser" while keeping Opera as my main browser? I know stuffplug had an option for this (only backwards) that is, the plugin allowed you to hange the default browser for emails... Any help would be greatly appreciated because I freaking hate the lack of support from Microsofts Live mail to other browsers (ie: It opens.. but is full of bugs and whatnot... For example you can't paste a link in a mail youre writing...)

I am also experiencing the same problem but don't want to change my default browser to IE. 

I accept that previously there were complaints to Microsoft about lack of support with other browsers but it seems that instead of adding to the functionality Microsoft have removed the previous way of working and replaced with the new, annoying way.

Why couldn't the previous way of opening email be kept and the new way be added as an option if preferred.

I may have a workaround for the continuous switching between accounts in firefox.
I'm not sure if it works, as I don't have hotmail or live email addresses.

The idea is as follows:
-Download IEtab for firefox.
-Set it to open hotmail/live mail in IEtab by default.

Now hotmail should be opened in a firefox tab, using IE's rendering engine. So it should be (almost) like it opened in IE.

Please post back here if this worked out for you or not.