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  • Firefox changed default mailTo client

    From sticks@wolverine01@charter.net to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 26 09:36:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    Using latest Firefox 147.0.1 and for some reason I clicked to email a
    link of a web page I was looking at, which is something I've done a
    million times, for some reason it had changed to outlook and opened that
    up. Easy enough to change it back to the Bird, but how in the hell did
    that happen?
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  • From knuttle@keith_nuttle@yahoo.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 26 11:54:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 01/26/2026 10:36 AM, sticks wrote:
    Using latest Firefox 147.0.1 and for some reason I clicked to email a
    link of a web page I was looking at, which is something I've done a
    million times, for some reason it had changed to outlook and opened that up.-a Easy enough to change it back to the Bird, but how in the hell did that happen?


    Most probable that the OS default programs has been hijacked by MS and
    made it outlook. Check the Setting, Apps, Default, Outlook; AND
    Setting, Apps, Default, Thunderbird

    Check the default programs in both Thunderbird and Firefox.


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  • From sticks@wolverine01@charter.net to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 26 11:48:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox



    On 1/26/2026 10:54 AM, knuttle wrote:
    On 01/26/2026 10:36 AM, sticks wrote:
    Using latest Firefox 147.0.1 and for some reason I clicked to email a
    link of a web page I was looking at, which is something I've done a
    million times, for some reason it had changed to outlook and opened
    that up.-a Easy enough to change it back to the Bird, but how in the
    hell did that happen?


    Most probable that the OS default programs has been hijacked by MS and
    made it outlook.-a Check the Setting, Apps, Default, Outlook;-a AND
    Setting, Apps, Default, Thunderbird

    You are correct. These got changed somehow in windows 11.

    Check the default programs in both Thunderbird and Firefox.

    Firefox had to be changed under applications for the mailto action. So
    it looks like firefox was complicit, but that this was initiated by a
    windows update possibly. Odd.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jan 26 20:26:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:48:37 -0600, sticks wrote:

    You are correct. These got changed somehow in windows 11.

    Too many problems reported here are not Firefox problems, but Windows
    problems.

    YourCOd think Windows users would have learned to always check that
    first, by now.
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