Comments on: "Windows Update Disables Firefox" Issue Resolved

By: ร้านอาหารเชียงใหม่

ร้านอาหารเชียงใหม่ — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:22:05 +0000

Yes they responded very quickly although Firefox ain’t exactly a friend of Microsoft, competing with IE .

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:31:03 +0000

I have the latest version of Firefox (since updated from the version above mentioned in the article) and both my computers now do not recognise that Thunderbird is the default email client for Picassa, Acrobat Reader etc. Microsoft Windows updates are a pain in the @#$%

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:29:16 +0000

I manage sixty computers at a Canadian university and they all have not only had their default changed from firefox/thunderbird to IE/Outlook but once you change them back it doesn’t take. We prefer the firefox/thunderbird combination (I prefer seamonkey)because they have been far less prone to being the vector of infection on machines than microsofts products as well as the fact that thunderbird does such an amazing job with spam. It is really interesting though that Microsoft would say that it was a firefox problem when it was only the MS software that was updated and caused the problem. As you bow to the kindly benevolence of microsoft, keep in mind that ultimately they would prefer that there weren’t any competition.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:59:58 +0000

Yes they responded very quickly although Firefox ain't exactly a friend of Microsoft, competing with IE . Family photos

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:12:42 +0000

Acutally, its not so simple. The latest Microsoft updates not only disabled Thunderbird as the default email client and made Outlook the default email client, it also permanently broke the links from other programs to Thunderbird. So far, although it simple to reset Thunderbird as the default email client, there is no fix to restore the links from Adobe Acrobat and other programs to activate Thunderbird when attempting to email a document from within those programs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:34:27 +0000

I have to wonder, though: Would MS have given it this sort of attention if it had been reported/blogged by a “long-tail” blogger instead of someone with your relatively high profile?

Personally, I doubt it.

By: FireFox Hacker

FireFox Hacker — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:45:54 +0000

Windows Update Disabling Firefox

If you recently updated Windows, you might discover that Firefox is no longer your default browser.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:51:53 +0000

Great response from Microsoft and kudos to both organizations for resolving the issue very quickly.