Links won't open from Outlook Express 6

[Jonny69]

I can't for the life of me find what option I need to tick and I'm sure it's very obvious... when I have an email with a web link it doesn't open a browser window when I click it, I have to copy the link and paste it in the address bar of my browser :mad:

Outlook Express 6 and Firefox 2 on Windows XP 32 bit

[Burble]

Does the link show as a link? Ie, blue and underlined?

[Jonny69]

Yes, and the cursor changes when you hover over it, just no openy

[Jonny69]

Did this and it worked

Originally Posted by flip

Sorry for a vague answer, I've seen this one before, but cannot remember the entire fix

I'm sure it was to do eith the program settings, in internet explorer, check that outlook express is set as the mail program

I know you use firefox, but ie and oe have some shared settings between them. if that works you can still have the links opening in firefox as normal. You just have to try the settings in ie even though you don't use it at all

I just googles it and found http://email.about.com/od/outlooktip..._fix_links.htm

That sounds like the fix I used many years ago

fliP.

[A Place of Light]

Outlook express should be burned at the stake IMHO.

[Burble]

Originally Posted by A Place of Light

Outlook express should be burned at the stake IMHO.

Along with Windows Mail or whatever they call it in Vista. I know it's essentially the same thing but it seems even cruddier then OE.

Glad it's all sorted Mr. 69!

[Feek]

Co-incidentally I had a similar (but inverted) thing earlier this week. For some reason the mailto: link had become associated with Crossover Games instead of mail.app

Odd.

[Jonny69]

I disagree, I like OE6 very much. It's simple and to the point and until now has never given me grief. It's probably because I was mucking about installing different browsers before it happened.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Jonny69

I disagree, I like OE6 very much.

Probably for the same reasons I used to, namely you've never really given Outlook a go.
OE is crude, crap to backup and has stupid incompatibilities even with other Microsoft products.

Try Outlook, mate, then you'll see OE for what it is.....garbage.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Burble

Along with Windows Mail or whatever they call it in Vista. I know it's essentially the same thing but it seems even cruddier then OE.

Glad it's all sorted Mr. 69!

Can't comment about that one matey as I have precisely zero experience with Vista. Sadly, from what I read about M$oft making the latest version of Directx incompatible with XP I fear I may have to.