Pale Moon as default browser on W10?

[satrow]

I've seen a query elsewhere about setting Pale Moon as the default browser on W10 and which of the IE/Edge file associations should be associated with Pale Moon, etc.

I don't use W10 except for brief tests and I've not yet tested the latest CU update, so I'll paste the OP comments and link here, hoping that someone might be able to tell us what should happen, when you set PM as default browser:

Note, this is for users who have Pale Moon as their default browser - but curious about Chrome, Edge and FF users too.

I think there is a bug somewhere, just not sure where, so I am starting here first so I can gather some more information and insight before posting on the Pale Moon forums, or the MailWasher forums.

I have set in Windows 10, Pale Moon to be my default browser. Yet when I open a separate preview window of an email in MailWasher Pro (my spam blocker) and click on a link in the email message, the webpage opens with Internet Explorer.

If I click on a link in Outlook, my desktop, Word, or anywhere else, the page opens in Pale Moon like it should.

This made me think the problem was with the way MailWasher Pro renders (if the right word) messages in its separate preview pane but the same links in MailWasher's normal preview pane open fine in Pale Moon so I don't understand why it would be different. Why would the program open the "default" browser in one preview, but a non-default browser in another?

Thinking MailWasher was coded wrong, I was going to post this issue over at FireTrust (MailWasher's parent site and support forum) when I decided to check one last time, the default settings in Windows 10. That's when I found several defaults were indeed still set to Internet Explorer. So I told W10 to once again, set all defaults to PM, but again, some remained for IE.

If you go to Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program, sort by Current Default, and scroll down, do you still see several file types/extensions set for IE?

I have the following still set to Internet Explorer:

.mht MHTML Document
.mhtml MHTML Document
.partial Partial Download
.svg SCG Document
.website Pinned Site Shortcut
.xrm-ms XrML Digital License
.xsl XSL Stylesheet
The only one that makes total sense to me is Pinned Site Shortcut.

So I am asking other PM users if they see those same IE settings. If so, then it is not just me. But I still wonder why PM did not assume those duties. Are they IE exclusive extensions or is there a bug in PM preventing it from picking those up too? Or is there is bug in MailWasher?

Any insight will help - I hope, or confuse me more!

https://www.sysnative.com/forums/window ... aults.html

[Moonchild]

The file types indicated are not part of the set of file type Pale Moon normally associates itself with.

- mht/mhtml is a special "archived website" format. This is not a format Pale Moon uses.
- .partial is a custom temporary file extension. You shouldn't expect any program to be able to meaningfully open it.
- .svg is a vector image format. Although Pale Moon can render them, it does not and will not associate itself with known image file extensions. It also doesn't claim e.g. png, jpg, bmp ico, etc that it can open. Pale Moon assumes you will want to use dedicated image viewers for that.
- .website is a proprietary format
- .xrm-ms is a Microsoft-specific format (never even heard of it before now)
- .xsl is an XML style sheet. it is not meaningful to open the style sheet without its linked .xml file, so that will not be associated with the browser.

So all of this is as expected; None of the formats are normal/common web browser associated file formats.

[satrow]

Thanks very much, Moonchild, I'll pass that along