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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / General Topics / November 2006html file association
Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file and displays it. Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not working properly. Now, I click on the file, nothing. If I open the Context Menu, Send To- Firefox, it opens the file. I checked and Firefox is still my default browser. I checked in Options/File Types, even browsed to my Firefox.exe, it was right before, surely right now. I checked in a few file association utils I have, they confirm the extension points to the exe. How to fix this? ms >Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file and >displays it. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >ms Maybe you already did this. Left click an HTML file to select it then right click it while holding down the Shift key. Select "open with" and select Firefox. Then check "Always use". Then ok. Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ >>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file >>and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Bill Watt > Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ I'll save your comment for next time. I had forgotten to reboot, when I did that, the settings worked again. Thanks ms >>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file >>and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Bill Watt > Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ Bill, I only have partial results. The above fix solved for *.htm files, when I click on them, Firefox opens and it displays the file. But on *html files, when I click on them, Firefox opens, it displays a blank screen with no address in the legend box. Again by Send To, it will open the file. I did as you indicated above, selected always on Firefox. Advice? ms >>> Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file >>> and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > ms ms, I don't know Firefox, but I *do* know SeaMonkey, and there have sometimes been issues with that regarding default browser settings. Is there a Preference option in FF for setting default browser? If so, check if it's selected or not, and select it if it isn't. If that still doesn't work, try setting IE (shudder!) back as your default browser (Control Panel > Internet Options > Internet Properties > Programs), then go back into FF and reset that as your default (you may need to reboot after setting IE to default, but try it without rebooting first). HTH  SignatureRegards Nigel Stapley www.judgemental.plus.com <reply-to will bounce> >>>> Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the >>>> file and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > HTH FF has that setting, yes it's the default browser, proof is htm files open normally, and in my newsreader, a link opens in FF. IE (shudder!) only as a last resort, if nothing else works. ms >>>>> Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the >>>>> file and displays it. >>>>> >>>>> Since 2 days ago, my file associations for *.html and *.htm are not >>>>> working properly. >> If that still doesn't work, try setting IE (shudder!) back as your >> default browser (Control Panel > Internet Options > Internet >> Properties >> > Programs), then go back into FF and reset that as your default (you >> may need to reboot after setting IE to default, but try it without >> rebooting first). > FF has that setting, yes it's the default browser, proof is htm files > open normally, and in my newsreader, a link opens in FF. > > IE (shudder!) only as a last resort, if nothing else works. I think Nigel's point was that switching to IE then back to FF will force them to fix the registry values for html, etc. Html is a MIME type and is more complicated thanan "Open with" will properly handle. Or, try the tweakUI fix that Bill Watt suggested. >>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file >>>and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >ms Try "Open with" on an HTML document again and see if it sticks this time. Otherwise in Folder Options > File Types select the HTML document that has HTM HTML SHTML for extensions and choose OPEN. Make it the default. There may be more than one HTML listed. If still no help you might try TweakUI and repair file associations under the Repair tab. Not sure what that will do in this case but I've used it several times and it caused no problems. Maybe that will help. Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ >>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file >>>>and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > Bill Watt > Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ I have sure learned this time- never run cleaners. I should mention, this is W2K, I went to that ng, suggestions showed everything seemed Ok, still can't directly open a html file. In your above, I only had one entry htm- that works OK. Another entry html- that does not. Not as you show above. Anyway, tweakui for W2K does not include file associations in repair. So I deleted the html extention in File Types, recreated it and pointed it to the FF exe file. Rebooted, no luck, Then I got the Open With screen, Other, always use, pointed to the exe, then it did open the html correctly ONCE. But next time again it opens FF, file not found. My FF version is portable, not installed, but has registry keys. Maybe there are 2 possibilities, but see below: a. run IE, associate the extensions with IE, then would have to still rerun FF to change back as default browser. b.Clean all FF entries out of registry, rerun FF and hope. Maybe this is a clue- when FF opens a html file, message- file not found. The path it shows is not right: Firefox can't find the file at /D:/Download/Edit. The actual path to that file is: D:\Download\Edit later\A Samples\Sample.html So FF is looking at the wrong place? If I can correct this, that may take care of it. Where to correct it? ms >>>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the file >>>>>and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 93 lines] > >Where to correct it? __________________________________________ >Firefox can't find the file at /D:/Download/Edit. If that's not a typo it should read: D:\Download\Edit later\A Samples\Sample.html with backward slashes ( \ ) not ( / ). Firefox should be listed with the "Other" file types, you should not have to browse for it. Maybe it's because Firefox is portable and not fully in the Registry. With the new info you have found maybe post a message in microsoft.public.win2000.general. Be sure to tell them that "Send To" works. Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ >>>>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the >>>>>>file and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 115 lines] > Bill Watt > Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ Thanks, Bill. I had a thread there, same sort of ideas, no joy. I will try to clean FF out of registry, then run portable version again, hope this solves it. Tried everything else. ms >>>>>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the >>>>>>>file and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 122 lines] > > ms Click Start> Settings> Folder Options, (or Start> Settings> Control Panel> Folder Options), scroll the list and select HTM file type, and also HTML file type, each in turn, click Edit, then select Open in the Actions box, click Edit, and see if DDE is checked and what the DDE info is in each line if it is. If it is enabled in HTM but not HTML, enable it there and copy the info in each box to match, then click OK all the way out. This is assuming that OS has the same options as Win98, in File Types. SignatureGlen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm >>>>>>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the >>>>>>>>file and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 125 lines] >> >> ms Thanks, Glen, I had just about given up. > Click Start> Settings> Folder Options, (or Start> Settings> Control > Panel> here, in W2K, Tools/Folder Options/File Types. > Folder Options), scroll the list and select HTM file type, and > also HTML file type, each in turn, click Edit, then select Open in the > Actions box, click Edit, and see if DDE is checked In both, DDE was *unchecked*, I tried check, empty data slots. Keeping in mind, htm opens normal, html gives: "Firefox can't find the file at /D:/Download/Edit" the wrong path anyway. and what the DDE > info is in each line if it is. If it is enabled in HTM but not HTML, > enable it there and copy the info in each box to match, then click OK > all the way out. > This is assuming that OS has the same options as Win98, in File Types. very similar. ??? I would paste in here the W2K advice, but not much there, everything in common with W98, didn't help. I hate to wipe Firefox out of registry and run it again, I loose preferences, etc, the tip of the iceberg. ms >>>>>>>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens the >>>>>>>>>file and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 158 lines] > > ms Assuming you have Firefox in the default location of C:\Program Files, click Tools> Folder Options> File Types, select "HTML" from the list, click Edit, select "Open" from the Actions box, click Edit, and in the box that show the path to the program that opens the file type, make sure it shows: C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -url "%1" If the path to the Firefox executable is different, then modify that line to show the correct path on your system. If you use a path that has any spaces in it at all (such as "Program Files") and you do not use the DOS 8+3 naming convention in the path, then you must also include quotes around the path itself, such as: "F:\FolderName With A Space\Firefox.exe -url" "%1" or perhaps the -url is supposed to be outside the quotes (I'm really not sure right now): "F:\FolderName With A Space\Firefox.exe" -url "%1" SignatureGlen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/ >>>>>>>>>>Offline: Normally, I click on a html file and Firefox opens >>>>>>>>>>the file and displays it. [quoted text clipped - 176 lines] > outside the quotes (I'm really not sure right now): > "F:\FolderName With A Space\Firefox.exe" -url "%1" Thanks for the help and details. I am saving it for next time! Just this AM I found out about Firefox 1.5.0.8 portable, I had 0.7. I just ran 0.8, it cured the problem, now both html and htm files open normally. Thanks again, Glen ms |
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