Open Firefox instead of IE 2

[kimtp]

The ShellExecute starts IE where I would prefer to use Firefox. Is that possible?

Here is my code:

Private Sub Form_Click()
 ShellExecute Me.hwnd, vbNullString, "[URL unfurl="true"]http://mywebpage",[/URL] vbNullString, "C:\", SW_SHOWNORMAL
End Sub

This is entered into a module:

Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
        Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, 
        ByVal lpOperation As String, _
        ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, _
        ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Public Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

thanx.

 

[chiph]

Go into program access & defaults (Start | Set Program Access Defaults) where you can choose your default browser.

Chip H.


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[jebenson]

When I run your code on my machine my default web browser (Mozilla) opens and loads the page specified. I think if you set Firefox to be the default web browser for Windows, it will open instead of IE. Basically, whatever browser opens when you click on an HTML document in Windows Explorer is what should open when you use ShellExecute.



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[kimtp]

Thanx for the help. This places a program on the desktop and the program then makes the link. What I really want to do is to place an icon on the desktop and when the icon is clicked it jumps to the link.

Thanx for the help.

Kim