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	E-mail - Firefox
	Discussion by kopman9 with 6 Replies. Last Update: May 18, 2008, 5:41 pm

kopman9

Evening all

Basically I use firefox rather than IE, however when I sign in on msn and it tells me that I've got an email, if I click to receive my emails on the email icon of msn, it goes to my inbox via IE

Is there any way of changing this to open automatically in firefox? IE bugs me with how slow it is and opening emails is a nightmare, but I can't find anywhere to change it

If not, I might have to start using outlook or something, 'cus it's doing my head in!

Thu May 15, 2008 Reply New Discussion

Darasen

I avoid MSN thus I may be speaking from my posterior here. That said MSN may have a preferences page somewhere with a setting allowing the change you seek. Otherwise I am not surprised in the least that a Microsoft product would only want to use a Microsoft product.

Thu May 15, 2008 Reply New Discussion

Jimmy89

I'm pretty sure that you cannot change this option, you must load the 'New Email' Link into IE. This is why MSN requires IE before it installs (as well as other reasons).

The most simple way to get around it is to make a favourite in Firefox and open it whenever MSN says you have mail. Besides that, theres not too much you can do!

Fri May 16, 2008 Reply New Discussion

Mordent

Sadly I'm almost certain you can't. I've looked around a lot for a way to do so myself and haven't had any success. It's odd, really, how I use Firefox for all of my web browsing except for checking one of my email accounts. It's not as if you can't log in to Hotmail (or any of its other names) with Firefox, just it refuses to let you do so when clicking on that little link in MSN Messenger.

Still, if anyone knows of a way then do share.

Fri May 16, 2008 Reply New Discussion

Paul - paulsbeboskinz

That happened with me. My default browser was Firefox but still opened in IE. When I was looking for MSN add-ons I found Windows Live Mail. Now when I open my E-Mail inbox it opens in WLM.

Sun May 18, 2008 Reply New Discussion

xboxrulz

Thing is that regardless of your default browser, Windows Live Messenger will still call upon Internet Explorer in order to open the link. This ensures that people will use Internet Explorer than Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Opera on their Windows machines.

xboxrulz

Sun May 18, 2008 Reply New Discussion

FirefoxRocks

There is no way to alter the links in Windows Live Messenger to open in Mozilla Firefox. You can still access Windows Live Mail by typing in http://mail.live.com/. If you are that lazy, add a bookmark to it on the Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

Sun May 18, 2008 Reply New Discussion