Default browser with command line switches?

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I've configured Windows 7 to launch my preferred browser when I click on a link either in an email or a document, so far so good.

I've added some command line switches to a browser shortcut which launches the browser which does what I want it to do.

However, even when the browser is running. if I click on a link in an email it still launches another instance of the same browser (without the command line arguments) rather than use the existing open browser window.


Does anybody know how I fix this?
 
If you can find the open command in the registry for the browser then you can change it. For example:

Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Word.Document.12\shell\Open\command

In there you will see the command that Word uses to open documents. You could add you switches to the equivalent key for your browser.
 
Thanks for the reply. In my reg the Word command is

xb'BVf!!!!!!!!!MKKSkWORDFiles>bi$T!V!0Z={Pk0vm~AZu /n "%1"


which makes no sense to me (I understand the %1 part).

I see all the other bits of software in there too, I'll try and get it fixed for Outlook and Thunderbird (my main problems).

Cheers!
 
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