Comments on: So You Wanna Change Your Default Browser In Vista?

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Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:49:10 +0000

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Tech Industry » So You Wanna Change Your Default Browser In Vista? — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:35:37 +0000

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Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:59:31 +0000

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By: Net Crap (8/15) at Musings of a Chicagoan

Net Crap (8/15) at Musings of a Chicagoan — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:15:41 +0000

[...] WIndows Vista is going to make it very, very hard for the Average Joe to switch their browser over to Firefox. (tags: microsoft whaddafuck dumbass) [...]

By: Net Crap (8/15) at Musings of a Chicagoan

Net Crap (8/15) at Musings of a Chicagoan — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:15:41 +0000

[...] WIndows Vista is going to make it very, very hard for the Average Joe to switch their browser over to Firefox. (tags: microsoft whaddafuck dumbass) [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:11:10 +0000

I wanted to clear some things up that I think will help this conversation. First, there has been new feature work for Windows Vista to allow per user defaults. This starts to become more and more important since computers are increasingly multi user. It is also important from a standpoint of working with UAC (User Account Control) because per user defaults gives users and apps a way to manage their defaults without having to be an administrator. The infrastructure was put in place to allow user A to have one browser as her default and user B to have a totally different browser as his default. This also extends to anything with common file and protocol types like media players, e-mail clients, photo viewers, etc. Second, the infrastructure is totally open but applications do have to opt into using it. You will see apps from many different companies in the programs list by the time Windows Vista ships. Firefox2 is implementing this new infrastructure as well, so it will show up in the list. Third, there were a few comments about a program centric view is not the right way to view file associations. It really depends on what you are trying to do. Managing files associations holistically across the OS or for specific programs are both valid scenarios. Windows Vista has both of these options. The UI above is only showing the program centric view and not the entire OS view. In the program centric view, you will see all the types an application wants to own to consider itself the default – so IE will show an entry for .mhtml, but it is likely Firefox will not since it doesn’t open .mhtml. Both of views of defaults can be found of the start menu in vista from Default Programs. The documentation on how to move an application to use per user defaults and the new infrastructure is below.
Hope this helps
-Ed

[msdn.microsoft.com]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:06:57 +0000

Leiterfluid wrote:

This is not new behavior. The same behavior exists when you try to run Firefox as a non-administrator in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. I can't have firefox registered as the default browser under a non-admin user unless a local admin also registers Firefox as the default browser.

This is the key point. If it didn't work properly as a limited user in XP, it isn't going to work properly in Vista. (Because that's exactly what a non-elevated administrator is: a limited user.) Microsoft has made it clear that the first step to making an app work correctly with UAC in Vista is to make it work correctly with LUA (limited user accounts) on XP. This is a change that Firefox is going to have to make.