amezri | Firefox AIM Link Bugfix

The solution's been discovered! Stupid Micro$hit.

The Problem: Everytime I clicked a link in AIM, I got a dialog box saying "http://www.blahblahsite.bla; program not found." Firefox will load the page anyway, but then you get another box saying "http:// unknown handler" and it asks you to browse to the program. Couldn't get anything but IE to work with it.

So I googled the problem, sifted through some unhelpful forum posts, and stumbled on this LJ entry.

The Solution:
+ Go to My computer->Tools->Folder Options->File Types.
+ Find the entry for "(NONE) URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol" and click Advanced.
+ Edit the entry for the "open" command.
+ In the section for DDE, remove the "IExplore" reference, or disable DDE altogether.

I disabled DDE, because I don't even know what it's for and who cares, really. Works fine without it. AIM links work now. Woo and hoo. Now if only there's a solution to the printing issue...

Erm. NM.. it.. works now. *shrug*

Edit: Removing the DDE option was making Dreamweaver crash when it tried to preview in IE. So.. I made IE the default browser again to get the DDE settings back, then I went back and set Firefox as the default browser. Finally, I went into File Types to edit the Open command for each "URL:xx" type and removed "IExplore" from the application line and replaced it with "Firefox". *phew* Everything works now. Yay.

Edit2: IEs being a little bitch and freezes DW when I try to preview in it. It's apparently a common problem, though I never encountered it befroe. The simple solution is to just open an IE window before you hit preview. *shrug*