Shoutbox

hey, what about my IE7

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Originally posted by RaceProUK

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
Ironically, Firefox does the exact opposite! I selected open in a new window, and everything still opens in tabs.

I have no clue why no one has discovered that yet.

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Originally posted by samardjiev
hey, what about my IE7

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Also a buggy. Nothing (I dont think) on WLM or Y!M opens on an existing window.

It's just the way Windows Live Messenger works. It is designed to specifically open a new Internet Explorer window no matter what your defaults are. As you probably remember, WLM 8 was released when IE6 was around (which didn't have tabs) so it didn't matter back then.

You can probably bypass this issue if you use StuffPlug but there is no version for 8.0 or 8.1 yet. Check out www.stuffplug.com and see if it has been released.

What's more, WLM doesn't use any normal method to open the browser. It bypasses the usual ways like ShellExecute() (which opens in the default browser) and runs IE directly.

If someone sends you a link in WLM in a conversation it will open the link in your default browser. I thought it was only the E-mail button which opened in IE no matter what.

yea...well looks like stuff plug isn;t going to be out any time soon so unless sumone comes up wit a script for opening e-mails in the default browser( sooo hoping for that to happen)...we all will have to live with the fact that it will direct to IE.....

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Originally posted by pasheeni
we all will have to live with the fact that it will direct to IE.....

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not unless you have a email button on your laptop... i have set that email button to open windows live mail in FF n it does it everytime just go into the buttons settings n change to open that in FF or ur default browser

Read this on Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup. Jonathan Kay explained (Source -» news:072DACB4-9EC3-4774-9324-FA49779C21BF@microsoft.com):

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Messenger will only open the default browser for links in conversations.  For all other
functions Internet Explorer will be used and it will open a new window, regardless of your
IE7 tab settings.

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