Firefox & MSM

Hi there,
I've been using Firefox for about a month now (and incredibly happy with it!), but have just a little niggle. It seems I can only open Microsoft Messenger after I have launched IE, which I would really rather not do (as IE is set to Work Offline since Firefox installed).
I have had an extensive search around the Mozilla website, but unable to find anything in relation to this. Is it possible to launch MSM directly from Firefox?

Many thanks,
R

 

Snape,

Check out this Mozilla KB Article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_MSN_Messenger

 

Thanks for that, but I was actually wondering if you could launch MSM from firefox, not vice versa? (ie via one of the icons in Firefox)

 

Snape,
I think that Ramona explanation is pretty clear. MSM is a Microsoft product, and it is not open source, thus, it will work only from other Microsoft products.
Aside from the fact that it does not work well anyway in NS7.x, people keep hitting their head against the wall trying to set up Netscape Webmail in a mail client other Netscape7.x. Is it not the same thing?

 

I don't know, is it? If I knew the answer to these sort of questions there would be no need for me to post here.