mykrocosm

To start the day off I decide to warm up by adding an option to our application’s help menu to launch our company’s home page. So I get it to fire off a standard ShellExecute with the URL, because Windows is supposed to open this with the default browser. Easy stuff. I run the app, click on Help -> Our website, and up pops Internet Explorer, churning away.

What the f??? I look in disbelief at my Firefox browser on the other monitor. I double check that it’s the default browser, and it is. Bloody Hell! I mutter angrily about bloody Microsoft and how they’re not respecting the default browser setting. I start googling for “ShellExecute default browser”. All the while letting everyone in the office know about this evil Microsoft conspiracy.

It’s about five minutes later I realise that I’m developing on my main monitor, within a VMWare Virtual Machine. One which does not have Firefox installed. In fact the only browser installed on it is…

Internet Explorer.

Ummm…

Err… sorry, Microsoft.