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Can I use BOTH IE & FF and retain the shortcuts to both to use at will?

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gator1965
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Can I use BOTH IE & FF and retain the shortcuts to both to use at will? I can download FF ok and use for a day or so along with IE, but after that I start to get messages from Windows saying IE is not my default browser and do I want to make it the default. If I answer no, many links in my windows mail and other links in the windows system don't work...I get a message that the file can't be found . If I answer yes, the FF shortcuts disappear and can't bring up the FF from the FF folder, I get a msg that the FF folder is corrupt!

Can I use BOTH IE & FF and retain the shortcuts to both to use at will? I can download FF ok and use for a day or so along with IE, but after that I start to get messages from Windows saying IE is not my default browser and do I want to make it the default. If I answer no, many links in my windows mail and other links in the windows system don't work...I get a message that the file can't be found . If I answer yes, the FF shortcuts disappear and can't bring up the FF from the FF folder, I get a msg that the FF folder is corrupt!

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MrThompson
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Hi, aparently we're a problem while you installed firefox. try to uninstall and reinstall firefox again, after you do that, open firefox and go to Tools>options>Advanced>General, and see that it have to be an option at last that sez "always check to see if firefox is the default browser on startup" uncheck that option.,

Then go to IE, go to tools>internet options>programs>and clic on "Make Default".

With this you make that IE the default browser.

Bye