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Netscape Newsgroups - Open in Firefox.

Postby 900t » Tue 13 Apr, 2004 6:19 pm

OK, I am running Firefox as default browser, and Netscape Communicator 4.8 for some special purposes (nostalgia mainly), but I use Netscape Newsgroups 4.8 for my newsgroups. (for email I use Outlook, but Outlook opens OE for newsgroups and it sucks.)

When I click on a link in NNewsgroups, I get a window in Navigator (4.8) which, well, sucks. How do I get it to open in Firefox?
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Postby Andrew T. » Tue 13 Apr, 2004 7:02 pm

The way I know of for a link in a component of Netscape Communicator to open in another browser such as Mozilla Firefox is to keep both programs open, and drag-and-drop links from the Netscape Newsgroup window into the Firefox window.
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