Default browser and meta tags

[Mike Hildner]

I have FireFox as my default browser to open up .htm files. Noticed that some .htm files show the IE icon and open up with IE from Windows Explorer. This went away when I removed these meta tags

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">

But both flavors of .htm files open up with IE from the command prompt using the start command. Is Microsoft just hijacking things?

[dglienna]

I think .htm and .html extensions are associated with IE. You can go in and change them if you want.

[Ideas Man]

Do what dglienna said first by reassociating them, if that doesn't work, in the File Types tab in Folder Options, try assiciating the URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Firefox, I don't actually use it so i can't offer much more than that, works for IE.

[mendhak]

I've seen FrontPage do that. Open up any HTML file in FP, save it, and the icon changes from the FF one to the modified IE one. (Possibly a FrontPage icon to indicate that this HTML page belongs to an FP web).

But it opens up in FF for me every time. (FF is my default as well )