Channel 9 - Discussions by oykica

Coffeehouse - Watch my PDC trailer !

oykica — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:15:15 GMT

Nice work and good luck!

Coffeehouse - Office hyperlink behaviour

oykica — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:11:02 GMT

Try looking at your file associations. You have some that exist for the (NONE) extension that relate to actions such as clicking a hyperlink.

Round up these two particular suspects.

URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy

Then set them up like this.

Action: open
Application used to perform action: C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -url "%1"

You might as well configure them for DDE while you are there.

Use DDE: Yup
DDE Message: "%1",,0,0,,,,
Application: Firefox
DDE Application Not Running:
Topic: WWW_OpenURL

I hope that does the trick. Good to see that you are a fan of the fox!

Coffeehouse - Office hyperlink behaviour

oykica — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:09:11 GMT

That's weird. Is it missing the -url "%1" parameter that is passed into firefox.exe for the application used to perform the action? That shouldn't make a difference because you can execute firefox.exe channel9.msdn.com from the Run window without any problem but it might be worth a try. Is DDE configured for those associations?

I can change the URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol file association and make the hyperlink from Word 2003 open in either IE or Firefox depending on which one I have configured. The configuration I noted at the start of this thread was how Firefox had configured them either immediately after installation or after I allowed it to become the default browser when prompted on the first start up. After setting the file association to IE, to test that I had the correct one, I used those exact same default settings when changing it back to Firefox. It then continued to work in Firefox as before.

Coffeehouse - Office hyperlink behaviour

oykica — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:40:20 GMT

The file associations for *.url do not come in to play here as we are not talking about a file. It is a hyperlink embedded within the document. That is why I recommended that you alter those two specific file types which are not related to any particular file extension.