Firefox as default, Need to invoke IE from Desktop Icon

Strange..Yes, but hear me out.

Firefox is the default browser and works for 99% of the website being viewed. However, a particular site only works in IE. There are buttons on the asp page used in client side scripting, which only runs in IE. We will be fixing the button issue shortly.

Questions:
My client wants to have a desktop icon as a shortcut to this website, but because of windows file associations, the icon brings up the default browser.

Is/are there any parameters that can be added to the shortcut, which would invoke IE instead of Firefox, for a desktop shortcut.

The only other way I know is to open IE directly and save the link to the favorites dropdown. I suppose you could also create a shortcut to the IE favorites shortcut...but this would be too squirrelly.

thanks

 

A pointer can point either to a url (in which case it invokes the default browser) or a program. Sounds like you need to call up the program and make the url the home page there, which you can do by rt-clicking the shortcut and selecting properties. Would that solve the problem?

 

Sparrow's right. You can create a new shortcut to IE, then right click>properties and where it says target, add the address of the website. So, if the target says "c:\program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe ", all you need to do is add a space after the last quotation mark and then the address of the website. Assuming IE is on installed on the c: drive, and you wanted the shortcut to open to Microsoft's website, the target in the properties of the shortcut would look like the following line.

Code:

 "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" www.microsoft.com

Double clicking it should open IE to Microsoft's website. You can rename the shortcut to something descriptive and also change the icon to something different if you want. To change the icon, right click on the shortcut, properties and click the change icon button.

 

24jedi ...

I have the same problem, in that my Credit Union's website only works with IE (I actually use SlimBrowser, an IE shell, because of its extended capabilities, including tabs). After lots of trial and error I finally settled on a Firefox extension called Launchy, which allows the user to open a page in another application (IE, in your case) directly from within Firefox.

It wouldn't give your client a desktop icon, but he/she wouldn't have to leave Firefox, either.

EDIT: I just tried Zander's solution, and it worked perfectly.

 

Thanks...

I will give it a shot.

 

There is also a bookmarklet, found here:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/seo.html#open_in_ie

which opens the page in IE, after clicking, select "Open With... iexplore.exe ". Also works in Firefox.

Ramona

 

Zander,

I like your refinement; it should be better than my original thought.

 

Thanks sparrow. It gets the job done.