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Julian Hall wrote:
The wife has been offered the update (in fact I believe it was in the list of selected updates) and her default browser is set to Firefox 3.6 (although she already has IE 8 and I believe Chrome too). I haven't yet looked closely at it on Windows 7 but it did pop up for me on a Vista machine the other day and I was surprised with the amount of choice... there was Firefox, IE 8, Chrome, Opera, Safari, K-Meleon and a few others which I'd never heard of.Terry Hill wrote:Using Windows 7 I haven't had the update at all. I suspect that's because I already have Firefox as my default browser, and it may only download on machines it recognises as having IE as the default. That makes sense in a way - why preach to the converted [and waste bandwidth]I fired up the remaining XP machine in the house today, and got the latest set of updates, one of which is kb976002. Once it's installed, it's non-removable apparently. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976002http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Windows-7-Vista-and-XP-to-Get-Choice-Screen-for-the-Default-Browser-129930.shtmlI took a look at the update link, from what I can gather, it asks me if I want to choose IE as my default browser or another one. Can't see if it actually removes IE from my installation though or just forces me to answer a question that I answered a long time ago when I decided to stop using IE..Julian
It also left a shortcut on the desktop so it could be run again (and I presume again). Looks like the actual box that opens up is a web page running on IE (but stripped down without toolbars, menu items etc).
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