Internet Explorer and Mozilla

[cameo]

Hi,
I usually use Mozilla, but recently I've found it to be very slow, (probably my computer!!) So I've started using Internet Explorer, everythings been fine - until today.

When I open IE and then type an address another page opens but this one is with Mozilla. So I end up having my 'home' page, which is with IE, but anything I try and search opens with a Mozilla page, hope this makes sense!!! And because my computer seems to dislike Mozilla at the moment, I'm lucky if it even 'finds' what I'm looking for!!
Does any one know why this is doing this?
And if so, how to rctify it?

All help gratefully recieved x

[ChuckFickens]

click start > control panel and the double click internet options, (may have to click switch to classic view first) then click on the programs tab at the top and you should have a button about halfway down that says make default.

Click this to revert IE back to being the default browser.

[cameo]

Hi Chuckfickens,
Thanks for that advice. I've just done that and now I've got a box come up that says,

'Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close existing Firefox process, or restart your sysyem.' (this has happened loads of times!)

Also have another box which says,

'Windows cannot find '(null)'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.' (had this before too!)

I've tried 3-4 times to get a page to load, (other than my home page) but as soon as I click 'go' I get these boxes!!

[Ethel]

Problem one

Open your task manager by right clicking on the bottom of the screen.
Click the 'processes' tab and scroll down until you see 'Firefox.exe'
Click on that and click 'end process'.

[cameo]

Hi Ethel,
I totally do not doubt you, but when I click end process i get a warning box telling me that this could have undesired results and could cause system instability. Are we sure we want to do this???

[ChuckFickens]

yes, it safe to end the Firefox process.

this may seem silly, but how are you running internet explorer, if your using a shortcut on your desktop try using the one on the start menu and see if that is different.

[cameo]

Okay, so I've ended the Firefox processes.

The same thing is still happening, I type an address into IE and a Mozilla page opens upand starts looking for the requested page!!!

I clicked on IE, I got my home page, I then typed in ABs address. Mozilla then opens up and gives me ABs page!!! I still don't know why this is happening!!!! I didn't click on Mozilla - maybe I should get rid of it!!!

[cameo]

Just also found out something else!!
My home page is bbc.co.uk If I click on something on that page, eg a news feature, it will come up on the IE page that I'm looking at - no Mozilla. So the Mozilla thing is when I type an address - I think!!!

Help!!!!

[rojash]

I can't begin to imagine mechanism by which typing into the IE address bar would invoke FF - even if FF was your default browser.

I suggest you uninstall FF. You can always re-install it later.

I'm very curious as to what effect uninstalling FF will have in these circumstances.

Don't forget to check that the FF process is not running before attempting to uninstall it.