I’m working on a project that is planned to be published as a Firefox add-on. One segment of the project, though, requires a link to be opened in Internet Explorer. I’ve done some research, and so far the only results that have turned up that accomplish this are add-ons to Firefox. We’re trying to avoid having to use one of these, as we want the installation process for our users to be as easy as possible. So, is there any sort of workaround for this? I know this is horrible practice, but the only solution I could think of, if it is even possible, is to change the user’s default browser to IE before the link is opened, then switch it back after the page has loaded. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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If you’re developing your own Firefox add-on, you can use nsIProcess and related to launch an iexplore.exe process. You can pass the url on the command line.
Please do not change the user’s preferences. 🙂