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1. Rick Mahn 03.01.08 / 5pm

   I can attest to this tweak working. I’ve blogged about this a few days ago (Adobe AIR & Windows Vista) when I found it on Adobe’s site.

   I’ve got it set to launch links into Firefox, and that is exactly what it does. Finally!

   Regards,
   Rick
2. Shey 03.02.08 / 9am

   Sweet, worked for me too!

   Thanks!
3. Mind Gravy » Blog Archive » links for 2008-03-07 03.07.08 / 4am

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4. KimW 03.07.08 / 8am

   Now we just need a way to get urls to open in a Tab in Firefox based browsers
5. KimW 03.07.08 / 8am

   Opps, meant to say
   Now we just need a way to get urls to open in a Tab in Firefox based browsers in MacOSX

   Soz
6. Blaspheme Bourne 03.10.08 / 12pm

   Works! Much obliged…
7. stuart 03.11.08 / 5pm

   Worked for me too - thanks, that was a pain.
8. Iris 03.14.08 / 4pm

   Didn’t work for me. I’ve tried several times but can’t get URLs to stop firing up in IE.
9. Mom On The Run 03.27.08 / 4pm

   Nice! It worked for me! Thanks for sharing this tip.

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10. melissa 03.30.08 / 6pm

    I am a Mac user and can’t launch any of my twitter urls into my web browser. Instead it always launches dreamweaver software (webpage making software). Does anyone have a fix for this?
11. Alvin Ashcraft 03.31.08 / 3am

    Thanks! That worked like a charm. Twhirl is great stuff.
12. Jeremy D Pavleck 04.01.08 / 12pm

    Thanks for the how to on this, I was curious and finally decided to actually find a solution to stop it from opening in IE. I shall tell all the world of your greatness!
13. Jeff McNeill 04.04.08 / 8am

    For Windows XP, try this:
    1) click on link in Twhirl to open in IE
    2) Tools > Internet Options > Programs, check the box “IE should check whether it is the default program
    3) Repeat and when it checks, make IE the default
    4) Next, uncheck the box in IE
    5) Open Firefox, Tools > Options > Main > System default, click the Check Now button
    6) Make Firefox the default

    Should work! (I tried lots of other things first, but this one did the trick).

    Cheers,
    Jeff McNeill
    http://jeffmcneill.com/
14. Lari Kirby 04.04.08 / 9am

    Another solution that works is from http://twitter.com/MattFaulkner/statuses/782221827 - Start - Run - “firefox.exe -silent -setDefaultBrowser” - take off the “s and hit OK

    I’m on Win XP and chose to run it from the command prompt instead of Start-Run, and I had to navigate to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox in order for the system to find firefox.exe.

    And this was after I had checked & the Firefox GUI reported that it already was the system default browser.

    Twhirl is once again opening links in Firefox.
15. PS 04.08.08 / 11am

    It worked like a charm. Thanks! =)
16. Robin 04.11.08 / 7am

    For me I don’t get Mozilla/Firefox as an option to select when choosing my default browser (though it is the default browser on the machine). With Vista I get the choice;

    Use current browser

    Internet Explorer
    Opera
    Safari

    Even if I set the default to alternative browser than Firefox, it still doesn’t appear as a menu choice.

    Any suggestions?
17. Alexandre 04.16.08 / 6pm

    It worked perfectly. I was getting mad at not being able to open Twhril links in a browser other than IE. After applying this tip, my links open flawlessly in Firefox. Thank you !!!!
18. NextInstinct 04.17.08 / 12pm

    Yes, this is the obvious fix.
    Except it dictates that setting as the browser globally on your machine. Sometimes, that’s not optimum.

    Twhirl is working on a lot, at a fast and furious pace.
    But a setting for that in the app itself would be a cool trick!

    Thanks!
19. Geeky 04.17.08 / 9pm

    @Jeff McNeill: Dude! it works like a charm Thx u sooo much!
20. Ryan Steele 04.18.08 / 5pm

    For some reason, Firefox didn’t show up as an option under the list of browsers. Doing a reinstall of Firefox over top of the existing install fixed the problem.
21. Sprayfly» Blog Archive » Links in Twirl open in Internet Explorer, not in Firefox - A Solution 04.19.08 / 2am

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22. Jeremy Latham 04.22.08 / 8am

    Thank you!
23. Mahmood 04.23.08 / 3am

    Firefox not showing up in the Set Defaults section for me either. Only IE, Safari and Current Default. However, I reset Firefox as default through Firefox option settings (”Check Now”) and also used the command prompt provided above, namely “Start >> Run >> firefox.exe -silent -setDefaultBrowser. Now it’s working fine! Not sure which one did the trick but it’s working and that’s made me very happy
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25. Catnip » Blog Archive » links for 2008-05-04 05.03.08 / 10pm

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26. Karri Saarinen 05.06.08 / 12am

    Thx, worked for me aswell.
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29. FireMom 05.28.08 / 8am

    Thank you. This was driving me batty.
30. Peter Horsman 06.05.08 / 4pm

    Well I can’t get links to open in ANY browser. I click on the link and nothing happens. If I click on a user ID they’re details come up in Twhirl, but when I click on a posted link then nothing, nada, zip, zero…

    Anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this annoying glitch? Please drop me an email if so :o)
31. KindaGamey 06.13.08 / 6am

    I was creating Flash movies locally and Explorer kept opening for navigatetoURL() statements instead of Firefox. I eventually found this page which mentioned the Vista Fix: Start - Default Programs - Set Program Access and Defaults. Firefox was not listed in there for me.

    I want to add my eventual fix to the annals of history. Instead I went to ‘Associate a file type or program’ and listed the things by name to see what Explorer was still linked to. .url was the culprit. I changed that to explorer and wallah - problem fixed. The links even open up in a firefox tab now. Sweet.
32. Cynthia Blue 09.22.08 / 1pm

    I have Ultra Edit installed as my default text editor… and when I click a lick in Twirl, the link tries to be opened in Ultra Edit. Even when I make the default browser change.

    Hrm…
33. Cynthia Blue 09.22.08 / 1pm

    Just went into Ultra Edit an removed the default file handling for all .htm and .html files.. an the URLs are loading in firefox now. So anyone haveing this problem might want to go to the app the link is trying to open in, and check their file associations.
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43. tr 01.29.09 / 4pm

    doesn’t work if you don’t have admin access. useless.
44. Lady Di 03.16.09 / 4pm

    One of the top & first tip I tried. Worked like a charm for me as well. Love Twhirl even more now!! THANK YOU!!
45. keith 04.13.09 / 3pm

    This works with XP as well.
46. Roseanne 04.23.09 / 7am

    URLs won’t open. Using Vista. When click on url, it opens “notepad” and recieve error message “The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect”. How do I fix this?
47. Kansalis 06.03.09 / 12am

    I also can’t get links to open in any browser on my Vista 64 system. Clicking URLs does nothing. I tried the fix in the original post, but no dice… Any ideas?
48. Bhavik 06.07.09 / 6pm

    For whom the links are not opening at all in vista, here’s the solution.

    You need to change the option for the app to run as an administrator. You can do that by going in the properties menu of the exe.

    Cheers
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