Iron as DefaultBrowser - Tool

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BrandonH28
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Re: Iron as DefaultBrowser - Tool

Post by BrandonH28 »

Hotcakes wrote:On a clean install of Iron 45 on Windows 10, none of these methods appear to work any more. The tool does nothing, running iron.exe as Admin with Windows 7 compatibility makes Iron *think* it is selected as the Default browser (but isn't) and just running it normally (or as Admin) and clicking the usual 'make default' button in Settings brings up the Win10 Settings App which shows no default browser (though it uses Edge as default) and clicking on that list brings up the options of Edge and looking in the Store for another App (I have uninstalled IE).

So I guess there's a registry entry or some sort of registration Iron needs to perform during install for Windows 10 to recognise it (although all of this works just fine from another machine which upgraded to Windows 10 while Iron was already installed)? Anyone have any tips?
Same here. Nothing's worked, even though I upgraded from 8.1 with Iron as default.
Mayhem
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Re: Iron as DefaultBrowser - Tool

Post by Mayhem »

I already wrote this in the german forum: If registering doesn't work for you, you can use a tool named "Register Firefox portable" ( http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/regis ... -in-vista/ ) . it works 100%. The registry-entries then are named Firefox Portable, which you can either manually change or keep, because they don't hurt, and if you keep them, the tool can also unregister Iron (aka Firefox ^^ ) again without problems. This tool works for the portable version aswell.

Hth.
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SRWare
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Re: Iron as DefaultBrowser - Tool

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http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8767
Please look here. The Iron Config & Backup Tool replaces this from XP to Win 10.
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