Links open in IE7 instead of default browser Firefox 2 (Vista Home Premium 32bit)

Hehe, that is a rather cynical view of the matter, but nevertheless I guess You're right. :-)

I had this problem with another application some time ago, but that could be fixed by defining Firefox as the default browser by name in the list of standard programs in Vistas' system preferences. AIR however does still not bother to check. Maybe it utilizes the system-embedded browser, which just happens to be IE7? Just like the Windows help application and other deeply integrated stuff does for example.

Well, it IS still in Beta, so not all hope is lost (at least mine isn't yet :-) ) as this undoubtedly can be changed rather easily.

Thanks for the info!

I came here to post this same thing but I couldn't figure out how to start a new topic. Glad to see others are bothered by this too. I thought "OK, I'll just right click it and get the URL to paste into Firefox." Nope no good there either. I hope they can fix this in Air before the beta's over.

I have the opposite problem. I open IE7 and all links open in Firefox. This is annoying because some links require IE, yet I cannot open the links in the correct browser.

"This is annoying because some links require IE, yet I cannot open the links in the correct browser."

Get the IETab extension, it usually solves that problem

For me the links open in Firefox. Unfortunately I don't know which setting I may have changed for this to be so. I know that's not a lot of help, but at least I can verify that it's possible.

I'm curious as to whether there is a way that I can change this on my computer (also Vista Home Prem 32bit) while they figure out how to fix it. Any quick fix on my end?

Good news, everyone! :-)

Apparently Adobe has been getting several complaints about this and finally offered a way to fix the problem in Windows. I already tried it and it works fine on my Vista system:

"To workaround this problem, go to Start > Default Programs > Set Program Access and Computer Defaults, expand Custom, select the radio button next to the application you want to set as the system-wide default browser (for example, Mozilla Firefox) and apply the setting."

Alrighty, one down, 99 more bugs to go...more or less... ;-)

That worked perfectly, thanks!

Yay, thank you, was bugging me having all my stuff in FF and then having to wait while IE7 did it's thing, god bless ya.