Submission + - IE7 Breaks Thunderbird & Python On XP?
BartlebyScrivener writes: "After installing IE7, I could no longer click on hyperlinks in Thunderbird emails. However, I was magically able to do so in Outlook.
When I checked file associations under file types, Windows still had Firefox as the default browser and indeed it acted like the default browser, meaning, if I double clicked on a link outside of Thunderbird, Firefox opened it.
The next thing I noticed was that the Python module webbrowser.py which had worked fine for months, suddenly gave me this error: "WindowsError: [Errno 1155] No application is associated with the specified file for this operation."
I found the fix at Mozilla:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser
Apparently, even though it LOOKS and ACTS like Firefox is still your
default browser after an IE7 upgrade, it's not.
To fix, you must run from the commandline:
firefox.exe -silent -nosplash -setDefaultBrowser
Which also fixes the webbrowser. py problem.
At least so far.
rd"