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Daniel H
Daniel H

Reputation: 2925

Can I force a link to open in a specific browser?

I have designed a website using Firefox and am now looking to integrate a softphone into the webpage, but unfortunately it is made with ActiveX, so Firefox won't support it.

I have tried opening my page in IE9, and it looks a mess because I've used CSS3 for a lot of it and haven't coded it for different browsers because we will only be using Firefox within the office.

Is there a way that I can tell my page in Firefox to specifically open a new page in Internet Explorer and just have the softphone in there? Or is there a way to get ActiveX running in Firefox with a plugin or something?

Upvotes: 28

Views: 105173

Answers (7)

Adam O'Keefe
Adam O'Keefe

Reputation: 9

Including double quotation marks around both program location and webpage name will do the trick:

"file location.exe"<space>"webpage"

Upvotes: -1

VSO
VSO

Reputation: 12646

You can open a link in Microsoft Edge from any browser by adding microsoft-edge: in front of the url in the HREF.

<a href="microsoft-edge:http://www.google.com">EDGE (works)</a>

I don't know how to get it to work in other browsers though. My team and I spent quite a bit of time on it and couldn't find a raw HTML/JavaScript solution.

Upvotes: 17

Flip van Ipscheuten
Flip van Ipscheuten

Reputation: 11

Same answer as from chuck wallace

If you want to start from for example in Internet Explorer, go to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe and create a shortcut to the Desktop. When you check the properties from this created shortcut, you will see the Target: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe.

Now you can place the shortcut from the website, behind the Target. It will show something like this: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe www.nu.nl. Or this C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe https://stackoverflow.com. This way it opens IE first and then the website.

Upvotes: -1

Tony
Tony

Reputation: 2754

IETab V2 will let you open a tab within Firefox that runs the IE engine.

Once installed, you can force a link to open with IE by formatting the URL or bookmark like this:

chrome://ietab2/content/reloaded.html?url=http://domain.com

Upvotes: 7

jake_nerdnest
jake_nerdnest

Reputation: 402

It's somewhat specific, but I created an internal site at work, and I wanted to link to another internal site that only works in IE. To do this, I created/defined my own application protocol in the registry. Then I added to my links the protocol header. This is similar to what apple does when you click a link and it opens iTunes. The downside to this approach, however, is that users will have to install the registry modification for it to work... like I said, it's really a solution for a very specific scenario.

Upvotes: 6

Igor
Igor

Reputation: 71

It really depends on your exact situation.

If you are targeting multiple users outside a corporate network this is hardly possible to achieve. However, if you are targeting your company's network it's possible to do this using custom protocol.

Your link then would look like: ie://opens_in_ie.com

You'll have to make changes to registry of target computers though. More info about custom protocols is available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

In most cases, system administrator can do this remotely.

Upvotes: 7

ariel
ariel

Reputation: 16150

I don't think you can open a IE window from firefox, but you can easily build a firefox plugin based on your activex using http://code.google.com/p/ff-activex-host/

Upvotes: 7

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