Link to Mozilla from Outlook Express emails??

Hello~

I just downloaded and installed Mozilla the other day and it seems to work better for me than IE which freezes during eBay searches and crashes frequently.

My problem is eBay is my business and I get numerous correspondence with links to eBay in my established mail program, Outlook Express. Now that I have installed FireFox Mozilla the links in the emails no longer work... don't take me to IE or Mozilla (still have IE installed as alternate browser).

I went to Mozilla and made it the default browser under their options, but that did not help.

I read a post here through a search where someone else had installed Mozilla and used it to effectively link from Outlook Express to the Mozilla browser, and had wanted to change it to link to IE... but, I have not been able to effectively 'backtrack' to make the solution work for Mozilla... help?

Thanks much for you efforts... GREAT FORUM!

Kate

 

Kate,
I would like to clarify a few points. Mozilla, with nothing else after the name is the suite of browser+mail which is no longer being developed. The latest version is 1.7.13, I believe. If you make it default, its mail will also be the default mail, and a mail link will be opening in its own browser component.
IE and (Mozilla)Firefox are browsers only, and links in the default mail, OE for instance, will open whichever browser is default. How well this works is unknown to me as Windows, as my WinXP has Start| "set program access and defaults" of different types. And, whatever is default in the Microsof Windows settings may not be default in the Custom" settings which I use. And, some settings will not even keep the way I set them.
Do you have both Mozilla and Firefox?

 

Thanks for taking time to clarify...

I mean I have Firefox browser, not the old Mozilla as you reference. I have both Firefox and IE in my Windows XP OS.

I had not thought of the "set program access and defaults" and went to it and made Firefox the default browser under their custom settings, and made Outlook Express my default email program. Then gave it all a try...

I opened OE and clicked on a link inside an email from eBay that confirmed my latest listing. The link took me to my Documents and Settings main folder! ... instead of to the eBay listing the link should have jumped to.

I opened another email in OE from eBay for 'Watched Items Ending Soon'. When I clicked on any link in that email nothing happened... didn't take me to Firefox or IE.

After a little more testing most of the emails took me to my Documents and Settings folder, while some did nothing...

Well, I went to Foxfire site and downloaded their Thunderbird email program for fun and to see what it was all about... maybe links from eBay would work from there. Sure enough the links work fine, taking me right to the item in the Firefox browser.

I'm not sure just yet whether I want to import my OE settings, etc (saved email?) to Thunderbird, figuring I should use it for awhile to make sure I want it as my default email program. So far it looks OK. However, my caution is that a few years ago I installed 'Incredimail' and use it as my default email program until I found out it has no option to compact and archive messages... as I save most of my email from customers it ends up with 1000s of saved emails. The more that got saved, the longer it took Incredimail to boot up (several minutes). That was annoying, so I went back to Outlook Express... however, the option to import the emails I had saved from Incredimail was not available and I now find myself toggling back and forth between the programs, Incredimail and OE, to reference correspondence... don't want to be doing that with yet another email program. But, if I can import my OE email into Thunderbird, it may be the best solution.

So, at this point, I am still not having success linking between OE and FireFox browser, even though I have made Firefox my default broswer through both "set program access and defaults" in Windows XP, as well as through the 'options' in Firefox and/or IE. Even when all point to Firefox as default... the email links don't open and take me where they should.

Maybe no answer to this and I'll have to use my 'work around'... getting used to that with software and computers!!... and be happy with it at that.

Thanks for your time today

Kate

 

Kate,
I have never tried to use OE as default, so I can't say why you have that behavior. Who knows? May be Microsoft does not want to deal with a "foreign" browser.
As for Thunderbird, you must compact folders, or else the deleted mail will still remain associated with the Inbox, in the background. More people fall for it, and get overfull Inboxes. Archiving is up to you. I created a number of folders in TB, and drag and drop mail which I want to save. Typically, I never have over 100 e-mails, or 3-5 MB in my Inbox, although I have considerably more than that in my Archive folders.
There would be no harm in importing your OE mail in Thunderbird. Imported OE mail is found in Local Folders.
Good luck.