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Open hotmail in Default browser by biggercrap on 11-20-2004 at 05:02 PM

Hi, Im using stuff-plug Msnplus plug-in. I selected the "Open hotmail inbox in default browser" but it still use back Internet Explorer.

Currently using Maxthon as Web browser!

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by user13774 on 11-20-2004 at 10:46 PM

If you have Windows Xp with SP1a you have the 'Set Program Access and Defaults' in ur start menu (@ all programs; on top). If you can select Maxthon at the default Web browser thing, Maxthon will be ur default web browser. (SEE SCREEN BELOW)

[Image: set_program_access_2.gif]

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uberdosis on 11-21-2004 at 05:53 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Markus
If you have Windows Xp with SP1 you have the 'Set Program Access and Defaults' in ur start menu (@ all programs; on top). If you can select Maxthon at the default Web browser thing, Maxthon will be ur default web browser. (SEE SCREEN BELOW)

i dont think that works, well im pretty sure that it dosnt work.

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by user13774 on 11-21-2004 at 10:08 AM

[Image: msn_angel.gif] should be ( a ) for SP1a :dodgy: dodgy msn icons..

uberdosis.. it should be in that list @ default web browsers. If not, Maxthon sux I guess :tongue:

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uberdosis on 11-21-2004 at 11:51 PM

yes i think Maxthon sucks

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by Plik on 11-22-2004 at 12:08 AM

Avant browser doesnt show either :chrongue:
And avant is like Maxthon beeing based on the IE engine

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-22-2004 at 12:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by uberdosis
i dont think that works, well im pretty sure that it dosnt work.

If you use one of the better browsers, then your browser is listed there, and that is the proper method (shown by Markus) to do it. You don't even need StuffPlug-NG for that!

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by biggercrap on 11-22-2004 at 02:36 PM

I used firefox 0.9.3 previously until i switch to Maxthon (former MyIE2) as a lot of manual arrangement need to be done. I.e bookmark, the character encoding in bookmark, toolbar and lot more which really make me

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-22-2004 at 05:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
Someone double check that please,
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work without stuffplug-ng, because I had firefox set as default like that when I programmed SPNG, and if it would've opened in FF without spng i wouldn't have programmed that...

It works perfectly here (Netscape), all links open nicely in Netscape and I don't have StuffPlug-NG. There are/were also many other threads on this forum about all this. The only ones that still open in MSIE are the ones you'll find in tabs.

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by Caboose on 11-22-2004 at 10:43 PM

I've enabled this feature and it works fine. I'm currently using Firefox 1.0.

I'm thinking only the more popular browsers are effected by this option, but I'm not sure *-)

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-22-2004 at 10:52 PM

quote:
Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
We're not talking about links here, we're talking about the hotmail inbox. I know that MSN calls some COM stuff with Internet Explorer for that (POST data), would be weird if that somehow launched netscape Someone with hotmail check this please

Well, my apologizes for misunderstanding the toppost. from the second post on I thought it was about the normal links in MSN Messenger (which is also brought up (too) many times).

Clicking on "you have x new mails" while you have disabled the POP3 feature in Plus! indeed opens up MSIE.

quote:
Originally posted by Caboose
I'm thinking only the more popular browsers are effected by this option, but I'm not sure

No it depends on what engine is being used. Since Maxthon and Avant browser are both kind of a wrapped skin around MSIE, it still opens MSIE...

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-22-2004 at 11:13 PM

No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by Caboose on 11-22-2004 at 11:20 PM

O_O

Wow... who would want to add all those keys just so a single link opens up in their default browser?

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
No it depends on what engine is being used. Since Maxthon and Avant browser are both kind of a wrapped skin around MSIE, it still opens MSIE...

Oh, I understand now. Thank you

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-22-2004 at 11:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

yes it does, the solution you gave doesn't mean that it isn't based upon the engine.

All it does is proving that those browsers don't set the correct registry keys when you select them as the default browser.

Also, those keys are correctly changed by browsers like Netscape, Mozilla, etc. and yet MSIE is still launched when you click on "you have x new emails" without having StuffPlug-NG. Those keys have very little (if not nothing) todo with that.

Those keys are, however, important when you select your default browser.

EDIT: added italic part, after the discussion with uryan, to make it more clear

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-22-2004 at 11:34 PM

Well IE's it's not launched on my system when I click "you have x new emails" With Maxthon set as default browser, and those registry entries set, it open in Maxthon, in a new tab if it is already running, and opens it if it is not currently running. (Edit: This is with SPNG installed)

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-22-2004 at 11:37 PM

given that and the fact that it doesn't work for other browsers (editing those keys accordingly of course), it proofs that it (also) depends on something else though.

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-22-2004 at 11:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Caboose
Wow... who would want to add all those keys just so a single link opens up in their default browser?

Actually, most people would only have to modify this one

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

the rest are just included for completeness

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by Sunshine on 11-22-2004 at 11:45 PM

I use Avant browser and when i click the e-mail link it opens it up nicely in Avant (using SPNG)..normal urls however (wether its in a convowindow or on a tab) still open in MSIE. I have not modified my regkeys manually.

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-22-2004 at 11:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
then it depends on something else, as this will not work for other browsers...

Strange...I just set mozilla as my default browser, and it worked fine with that too...and then with firefox too

Conclusion...it is not the browser that is the problem

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-22-2004 at 11:48 PM

quote:
Originally posted by uryan

quote:
Originally posted by Caboose
Wow... who would want to add all those keys just so a single link opens up in their default browser?

Actually, most people would only have to modify this one

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

the rest are just included for completeness

That only changes the used application name of the process that is going to handle the HTML file when you double click a HTML file or when a HTML file is openend. AKA, it changes the HTML file association. This has certainly nothing todo with the "you have x new email links".

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
Strange...I just set mozilla as my default browser, and it worked fine with that too...and then with firefox too

Without StuffPlug-NG and with a disabled POP3 feature in Plus! and with an hotmail account and you did click on "you have x new emails"?

Because we are not talking about normal links, like TB pointed out (which mistake I also made with my first post in this thread). And the registry keys you show have only something todo with file associations and thus normal links, so make sure you're talking about the very same thing.

Cause I know that all mozilla based browsers, among others, can be set as default browser an they will be started up when you click a normal link; that's not the issue here...

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-22-2004 at 11:59 PM

Yes it does. When you are using the open hotmail in default browser option, SPNG creates a file in your temp directory called spng_redirect.html that logs you in to hotmail. That file is then opened in your default browser. Maxthon set the standard shell\open\command reg key, but not the DDE ones. For some reason this usually made it the default browser when opening html files, but not when SPNG opened its file. Modifying those keys made it work perfectly

Gah...CookieRevised modified his post n now this doesn't flow on properly. Yes, I am talking abt the You have x new emails, and the popups that appear when you receive an email

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-23-2004 at 12:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
Yes it does. When you are using the open hotmail in default browser option, SPNG creates a file in your temp directory called spng_redirect.html that logs you in to hotmail.

I said:

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Without StuffPlug-NG and...

My whole point was that your solution (with the registry keys) will not work as long as you don't use StuffPlug-NG, because MSN Messenger on its own doesn't use the "normal way" (aka html association) concearning this link. So we were talking about different things...

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
That file is then opened in your default browser.

Yes, and StuffPlug-NG makes it so, by using a file, that your default association for HTML files is used instead of the normal way that MSN Messenger uses to open that link. Otherwise it will still open in MSIE regarding your default browser setting (and thus those registry keys) as long as you don't use StuffPlug-NG.

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
Maxthon set the standard shell\open\command reg key, but not the DDE ones. For some reason this usually made it the default browser when opening html files, but not when SPNG opened its file. Modifying those keys made it work perfectly

Yep, now I agree, because StuffPlug-NG is used and so your registry keys do make sense...

In short: we were talking about different things: I though you came with that solution to proof that you don't need StuffPlug-NG in order to let it work.

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
[i]Gah...CookieRevised modified his post n now this doesn't flow on properly.

I didn't edited my post so that the essence has changed. I edited with a bit more cleares sentences...

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-23-2004 at 12:45 AM

Sorry, I did not realise you were talking about without SPNG. I was saying that adding those keys make it work with SPNG and Maxthon.

No, you didn't change the essence of your post. However the "Yes it does" was in reply to your last sentence which is no longer your last sentence (I can't remember what it was now), hence the it doesn't flow

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-23-2004 at 12:50 AM

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
Sorry, I did not realise you were talking about without SPNG.

yeah, I didn't realise either that you were talking about the opposite

Anyways, glad it's solved...

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
I was saying that adding those keys make it work with SPNG and Maxthon.

yup, I'm glad you posted though, as that was the solution on the OP's problem though (y)

RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by biggercrap on 11-23-2004 at 06:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

Do I just change the value data from IExplore to Maxthon?

RE: RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-23-2004 at 06:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by biggercrap

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

Do I just change the value data from IExplore to Maxthon?

yep...

RE: RE: RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by biggercrap on 11-23-2004 at 07:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised

quote:
Originally posted by biggercrap

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

Do I just change the value data from IExplore to Maxthon?

yep...

After I change the value. it still didnt work, so i proceed to change other additional value and reboot but it failed. Following I check the settings on the Stuffplug configuration and discover tat the "open hotmail inbox in default browser" wasnt check.

Thanks anyway!

RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by Grue on 11-23-2004 at 10:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

Nice! it worked. thanks (Y)

RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-23-2004 at 11:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
Glad this got solved, I might copy parts of this to my SPNG FAQ
I think the reason Maxthon doesn't work might be that it doesn't associate itself with html files on the local disk (check with Start -> Run). I'll see if I can put a file:// in front of the command line or something and see if that works

Actually, Maxthon does associate istelf with html files, it just doesn't do a very good job. It creates a new action called Maxthon, and sets it as the default. It also changes the command for open to Maxthon, but does not change any of the DDE settings. If the DDE application is set to IExplore (as it probably will be for most ppl), then the open command will run IE. If it is set to anything else, then the open command will run Maxthon (This may be the case if you have switched from a non-IE browser to Maxthon).

As explorer uses the default action, it Maxthon will open when you double click on html files. Anything that uses the open action (as I presume SPNG does) will open IE on most Maxthon systems.

You could change SPNG to use the default action instead of open, as that is what most ppl would consider the default browser to be. I will contact the author of Maxthon about its behaviour. BTW, did you see my post about adding the mark of the web to the generated page?

RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by biggercrap on 11-25-2004 at 02:51 PM

With regard to something similar but is off-topic, the hyperlink on excel spreadsheet oso default to using MS I.E browser when clicked.

Any idea how to make the default browser activate instead of Internet Explorer?

quote:
Originally posted by uryan
No it doesn't...adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by CookieRevised on 11-25-2004 at 03:19 PM

quote:
Originally posted by biggercrap
With regard to something similar but is off-topic, the hyperlink on excel spreadsheet oso default to using MS I.E browser when clicked.

Any idea how to make the default browser activate instead of Internet Explorer?

Same story... When you've good a decent browser which enables the "default browser" in a good way, it will work without a problem.

Try what Markus has suggested (after setting your browser to the default one).

EDIT: If it doesn't work with Maxthon, then blame the browser and switch to a more decent one

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by biggercrap on 11-26-2004 at 03:35 AM

It doesnt seems to work for excel hyperlink!

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by huji76 on 11-27-2004 at 03:08 AM

quote:
adding these registry entries will make it work with Maxthon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

I have SPNG and changed the values to "Maxthon' only in Application folders (the rest was already changed). This works only for Hotmail and doesn't work for the links.
But I don't check mail with browser at all, I have to open the links with Maxthon! Does anybody have any ideas yet?

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by chris on 11-27-2004 at 04:25 AM

Is there anyway to make these work with avant?

quote:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"file://%1\",,-1,,,,,"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="\"%1\",,-1,0,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Application]
@="Maxthon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by uryan on 11-27-2004 at 08:40 AM

chris, try deleting the ddeexec keys entirely. If that doesn't work then i can't help you as i don't have avant

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by huji76 on 11-27-2004 at 05:10 PM

Finally works!!!

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="MaxthonHTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="MaxthonHTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe\" \"%1\""

RE: RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by ColaSonic on 04-14-2005 at 01:17 AM

quote:
Originally posted by huji76
Finally works!!!

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="MaxthonHTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="MaxthonHTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe\" \"%1\""

This reg file can let me open links in maxthon. however, it also has the spng_redir.html opened in notepad, instead of maxthon. weird.

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by TheBlasphemer on 04-14-2005 at 05:16 AM

Actually, all you need to do is make sure Maxthon (or another preferred browser) is the default (open) handler for .html files

RE: Open hotmail in Default browser by Purity on 04-14-2005 at 05:47 AM

I use maxthon browser, and when i goto opetions, and set as default browser it NEVER works....