{"id":23,"date":"2007-09-25T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/-\/other\/locate-link-browser-in-outlook-2003-using-vista\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T04:02:09","slug":"locate-link-browser-in-outlook-2003-using-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2007\/locate-link-browser-in-outlook-2003-using-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"“Locate Link Browser” in Outlook & Vista."},"content":{"rendered":"

Everytime I click a link in Outlook it would load Firefox but also pop up a request to “Locate Link Browser”.<\/p>\n

Searching the web found this solution in newsgroups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Vista, Goto:
\nControl Panel
\nPrograms
\nMake a file type always open in a specific program
\nUnder Extensions, look for “.url” and change it to Firefox. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Worked for me!<\/p>\n

Update:<\/font><\/b> (8th March 2008)<\/p>\n

Although I no longer have this issue, I have come accross a wiki page which suggests a registry edit could also fix the problem. Its a little more advanced, but if the above doesn’t work, its another solution.<\/p>\n

From mozillaZine<\/a> …<\/p>\n

You will need to manually edit the registry in Windows Vista or in cases where the File Types listing is missing certain entries such as “URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol” (HTTP) and “URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy” (http).<\/p>\n

<\/i>Caution: Editing the registry incorrectly can damage your system. Do not attempt these steps if you are inexperienced or uncomfortable using the Registry Editor.<\/i><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Go to “Start -> Run” (or press the windows key+R) then type regedit and click OK\n
  2. Use the directory tree hierarchy to navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\HTTP\\shell\\open\\ddeexec<\/code>\n
  3. Delete the “ddeexec” registry key\n
  4. Repeat for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\httpshell\\open\\ddeexec<\/code> (and any other protocols you want to fix)\n
  5. Repeat for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Firefox\\URL\\shell\\open\\ddeexec<\/code>\n
  6. Repeat for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Firefox\\HTML\\shell\\open\\ddeexec<\/code>\n
      <\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Everytime I click a link in Outlook it would load Firefox but also pop up a request to “Locate Link Browser”. Searching the web found this solution in newsgroups. In Vista, Goto: Control Panel Programs Make a file type always open in a specific program Under Extensions, look for “.url” and change it to Firefox. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}