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[Fulvio]

I fought for a while, and, then, gave up when the newer nightlies of Firefox3.0 were making themselves default. I complained about it at the mozillazine site, and, pretty much got laughed at. Now, I discovered that Thunderbird2.0pre, which would make it a preview release is doing the same thing. And, it is not easy to tell, but a check mark to make it default appeared.
Of course, it is difficult with nightly updates, and, this will convince me to stop updating, but I don't know what they are trying to prove. Maybe that they can be underhanded.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[Fulvio]

It happened, again, today. 1.5.0.10 misbehaved, as well. This had not happened before. This morning when I tried to open a link, it opened 1.5.0.10, and although I did not have a check mark to verify if it is default, it told me that it was, and the choice I had was "Ok".
Obviously, I don't need so many browsers and mail applications, but if they want to play games, I will have less stuff on my computer.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[Fulvio]

It is worse than I thought, at least with TB2.0pre. As I usually do, I download the zip nightly, and then unzipped it. I found out that it is not the update which makes itself default, but the unzipped program. I have unchecked the default for Mail, and found out that it became grayed out and still checked. If I select mail from Firefox, I could not bring up TB 1.5.0.10, which had been my default all along. Finally, with both mail applications closed, I could not delete the 2.0pre. I was being told that it was being used by someone else.
I did a virus scan, and, of course I found nothing other that TB2.0 has 1590 files. Wow!
For now, I have to hang on that unwanted program. Will try to reboot later, or see if there is any extention which causes the problem.
As for 1.5.0.10, I, grudgingly, decided to make it default, for now. 1.5.0.10 was installed in the default location, i.e. Program Files|Mozilla Firefox. I, still don't understand this behavior.
I closed Firefox, and, I was able to delete TB2.0pre. Why? I have no idea, but good riddance.
At mozillazine.org it was suggested that all of the above is due to a regression which appeared when the programs were made compatible with Vista. We will see.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070216 Firefox/1.5.0.10

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17