Forums Bug Reports Browser selection "fixed" .. but you cheated!

For the past few days I've been wondering to myself, why on earth are all URLs from mIRC now opening in UltraEdit? Internet Explorer has always been set as my default browser, so this truly confounded me.

Turns out, mIRC doesn't use the default browser at all, it just checks to see what the default application for the .html extension is, and uses that. Cheat!

If I hadn't today decided I don't want .html associated with a teext editor by default, I'd have been stuck with that scripted workaround that I haven't had to use before now (because I wanted to use IE anyway ;P).

Just thought I'd pass that on... perhaps mIRC should be taking into account the *actual* default browser? :P

Before making accusations you should double check things. The 'default browser' function works perfectly for me in mIRC. I set all .html files to open in MS Word then clicked on a URL in mIRC. IE Opened the site. I set .html files to open in IE and then set Netscape (Crapscape) as the default browser in Netscape's preferences. I then clicked the URL in mIRC again and Netscape opened the site. After that I set everything back to normal.

In addition, if you were right about your assumption about .html then how do you explain how the function would work for URL's bearing filenames that end in .asp, .pl, .php, .jsp, etc?

Actually I double checked and triple checked.

The action of my mIRC directly mirrors the "open" action for .htm(l) files. One thing I will give you is that I was modifying .htm and .html at the same time - so I have no way to be CERTAIN it was the .html association. It could be .htm. I will now check.

To be certain that it's not just my client I'd appreciate it if you could run the test you did with the .htm association.

In addition, if you were right about your assumption about .html then how do you explain how the function would work for URL's bearing filenames that end in .asp, .pl, .php, .jsp, etc?

No, I think you misunderstand... mIRC isn't looking up the association for the filename it's opening on the web, it's looking up the .htm(l) association for any URL, regardless of its filename.

I just did, it still opens IE (Set as default browser) instead of the programme I chose to edit the files in.

Try restarting mIRC after you change the file associations? Maybe mIRC loads the info when it starts and even if you change stuff after that, it still uses the values from when you started.

codemstr: negative, can't be, because it worked fine after changing the association with no restart.

Watchdog: Apologies then, it must be something screwey UltraEdit does when associating itself with HTML.

Here's an update for you....

When I was subsequently testing after WatchDog got back to me, I was using Windows' file associations dialog. Changing the association there to UltraEdit doesn't break mIRC's behaviour.

However...... when using UltraEdit itself to give it the .HTML extension (I've confirmed it's .HTM not .HTML) then it must be doing something that Windows' dialog doesn't as mIRC proceeds to open all URLs in UltraEdit.

I cannot explain why this would happen; UltraEdit must be setting associations in more than one place.