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Fire fox will not allow me to make it my default

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When I click on "make firefox my default" nothing happens. It goes to a blue screen with a gear icon. On windows 7, my alternate device, this problem did not occur.

When I click on "make firefox my default" nothing happens. It goes to a blue screen with a gear icon. On windows 7, my alternate device, this problem did not occur.

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Hello dlrohs,

If you haven't already, would you please take a look at this article and see if maybe there is something there that you haven't tried yet :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/setting-firefox-default-browser-does-not-work