I’ve been struggling to make Firefox my default browser in Vista for months, until I triumphantly found a solution yesterday. What’s the big deal? I cannot tell you how frustrating it was to have links in email and instant messages open in Internet Explorer. Not only did they open extremely slowly, but if it was an important link, I would have to copy it, open up a Firefox window, paste the link and then bookmark the page. Doesn’t sound that bad, but try it for a few months and please tell me that it isn’t annoying. I’m all about saving time and I hardly use Internet Explorer as it is.

Most of the solutions involved:

1.) Open the Start menu

2.) Select Default Programs

3.) Select Set your Default Programs

4.) Select Program access and computer defaults

5.) Select the Custom drop down

6.) Select Firefox as your default browser

This solution may work for some, but unfortunately Firefox doesn’t even show up as an option for a browser on my computer. I couldn’t select it if it wasn’t even available. Here was the solution that finally worked.

1.) Open the Start menu

2.) Select Default Program

3.) Select Associate a file type or protocol with a program

4.) Scroll down to “URL” and select Firefox

Just like that and poof…this frustrating problem disappeared. Hope it works for you because from the looks of searching around on Google, I am not the only one experiencing this problem.