How do you get OneNote to open links in the DEFAULT browser?

[Herb Martin]

How do you get OneNote to open links in the DEFAULT browser?

I can't find any setting in OneNote (Tools->Options-> ??? would be
the obvious place) so it seems to be hard coded to Internet Explorer.

Lest you think me a Microsoft "turncoat" I actually use IRider which
is a wrapper for IE -- all the advantages of IE, none of the
incompatibilities
of the "other" browsers, and a method for navigating that allows for
literally hundreds of pages to be understandably and manageably 'open'
at the same time.

IRider places (nearly infinite) IE data panes within a hierarchical browse
frame.

IRider is my default application for HTM and HTML files.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I don't think that OneNote respects the Default Browser setting. It's an
oversight.

You've set things correctly in Add/Remove Programs | Set Programs and
Access Defaults?

 

[Herb Martin]

I don't think that OneNote respects the Default Browser setting. It's an
oversight.

You've set things correctly in Add/Remove Programs | Set Programs and
Access Defaults?

Yes (but it's still a good question); things like the command line
and Outlook/Outlook Express/Excel all respect the default browser
(IRider.)

I think that I love OneNote, but it sure has a quirky interface
(for no apparently useful reason.)

I must have hit "Alt-Left" about a hundred times trying to
go BACK (not left) <grin>

 

[superkite]

Oversight my ass!

I don't think that OneNote respects the Default Browser setting. It's an
oversight.

You've set things correctly in Add/Remove Programs | Set Programs and

 

[Grant Robertson]

It's an oversight.

Oversight my ass!

Took the words right outta my mouth.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Took the words right outta my mouth.

I'm just guessing but it may be because OneNote has better compatibility
with IE (for example the way the URL is passed to OneNote from IE when you
drag/drop web content; while it's not with Firefox (for example).

So maybe they tied OneNote to IE in order to encourage the use of IE with
OneNote. <shrug> I agree that OneNote should respect the default browser
setting, however.


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
http://www.scgab.com

 

[Herb Martin]

So maybe they tied OneNote to IE in order to encourage the use of IE with

OneNote. <shrug> I agree that OneNote should respect the default browser
setting, however.

In my case OneNote's decision to hard code the
browser is actually avoiding the default choice
which itself is an (enhanced) version of IE.

IRider **is** IE only better. And it works just fine
with OneNote.

I'm just guessing but it may be because OneNote has better compatibility
with IE (for example the way the URL is passed to OneNote from IE when you
drag/drop web content; while it's not with Firefox (for example).

In what way does FireFox not work with OneNote?

Does the 'Pasted from...' note not work correctly? IRider
does that just fine.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

In my case OneNote's decision to hard code the
browser is actually avoiding the default choice
which itself is an (enhanced) version of IE.

IRider **is** IE only better. And it works just fine
with OneNote.

Understood. I don't think it was a good decision, just reaching for a
possible explanation of it.

In what way does FireFox not work with OneNote?

Does the 'Pasted from...' note not work correctly? IRider
does that just fine.

It doesn't pass the URL correctly when you drag/drop content so OneNote
can't automatically build the link to the source page.



--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
Stockholm/KSG - Honolulu
http://www.scgab.com

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

In my case OneNote's decision to hard code the
browser is actually avoiding the default choice
which itself is an (enhanced) version of IE.

IRider **is** IE only better. And it works just fine
with OneNote.


In what way does FireFox not work with OneNote?

Does the 'Pasted from...' note not work correctly? IRider
does that just fine.

FF does not pass along the URL source of pasted text to OneNote to be
included when pasting. IRider is just IE (as you've said), so it makes
sense that it behaves as IE does.