How change association for web shortcuts?

The shortcut for the IXQUICK browser is now pinned to my W10 taskbar
and is working fine.

Now I would like to have IXQUICK be the default brower for my web
shortcuts. Such as:
http://www.cheapoair.com/fpnext/Air/Listing/s/1

or

C:\MY_DATA\Myhomepage.htm

IOW can I change the file association for .htm, http (https) to be
IXQUICK instead of MS Edge? How?

Thanks
Johnny

wrote:

The shortcut for the IXQUICK browser is now pinned to my W10 taskbar
and is working fine.

Somebody explained the other day that ixquick is a search engine, not a
web browser, that's to say, ixquick is a website that you can only
access from a browser such as IE, edge, chrome, firefox ...

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:28:42 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

wrote:

The shortcut for the IXQUICK browser is now pinned to my W10 taskbar
and is working fine.

Somebody explained the other day that ixquick is a search engine, not a
web browser, that's to say, ixquick is a website that you can only
access from a browser such as IE, edge, chrome, firefox ...


I shud have discerned that. Thanks

Johnny

On 02/16/2017 06:28 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
wrote:

The shortcut for the IXQUICK browser is now pinned to my W10 taskbar
and is working fine.

Somebody explained the other day that ixquick is a search engine, not a
web browser, that's to say, ixquick is a website that you can only
access from a browser such as IE, edge, chrome, firefox ...

IXQUICK does provide a proxy service with each search. Look for the
"proxy" links. That's not another browser, but someone may be confused.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion." -- Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Mark Lloyd wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Johnny wrote:

The shortcut for the IXQUICK browser is now pinned to my W10 taskbar
and is working fine.

Somebody explained the other day that ixquick is a search engine, not a
web browser, that's to say, ixquick is a website that you can only
access from a browser such as IE, edge, chrome, firefox ...

IXQUICK does provide a proxy service with each search. Look for the
"proxy" links. That's not another browser, but someone may be confused.

The assumption Andy and many others make is that "browser" means "web
browsing client". There are other browsers in Windows, like the one
provided via API that apps can use when you use File - Save [As] and
get a browser dialog for where you want to save the file. There is the
Computer Browser service which has nothing to do with web surfing. Just
saying "browser" is not clear but may be interpreted from the context
(of which the OP provide almost none in this thread).

While the OP got a shortcut pinned to the taskbar, we don't know which
web browser he wants to use to load the document (web page). He pinned
a shortcut that specifies a document type. It's not a pinned program.
We don't know which web browser he wants to load when using the
shortcut.

Likely there is an option in his preferred choice of web browser to make
it the default program. In the unlikely event the web browser doesn't
have such an option, he can select the default app. The following
online search found lots of help articles:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wind...ault%20program

This requires the web browser registers itself as that type of
application. That means the web browser gets installed. Someone just
copying a web browser's files into a folder and running that way won't
have the needed registry entries for registration of that program.
Presumably the OP is not using a portable web browser on, say, a USB
flash drive since that will likely not register that program in the
registry (else it wouldn't be a /clean/ portable app which is why many
users use portable apps).

VanguardLH wrote:

The assumption Andy and many others make is that "browser" means
"web browsing client".

From the O/P "I would like to have IXQUICK be the default brower for my
web shortcuts" is fairly clear

There are other browsers in Windows, like the one provided via API
that apps can use when you use File - Save [As] and get a browser
dialog for where you want to save the file. There is the Computer
Browser service which has nothing to do with web surfing.

You would hardly expect the Computer Browser, or File Save dialog to
handle web shortcuts.

Andy Burns wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

The assumption Andy and many others make is that "browser" means
"web browsing client".

From the O/P "I would like to have IXQUICK be the default brower for my
web shortcuts" is fairly clear

Did you forget what you already said? That Ixquick is a search engine,
not a web browser. So we still don't which web browser the OP wants to
be the default handler for the URL protocol.

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:07:38 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

The assumption Andy and many others make is that "browser" means
"web browsing client".

From the O/P "I would like to have IXQUICK be the default brower for my
web shortcuts" is fairly clear

Did you forget what you already said? That Ixquick is a search engine,
not a web browser. So we still don't which web browser the OP wants to
be the default handler for the URL protocol.

IE11
Johnny

VanguardLH wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

The assumption Andy and many others make is that "browser" means
"web browsing client".

From the O/P "default brower for my web shortcuts"

Did you forget what you already said?

No, but a "default browser" for "web shortcuts" is unlikely to be a file
browser, or a computer browser, which is the tangent you went along.

Andy Burns wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:

The assumption Andy and many others make is that
"browser" means "web browsing client".

From the O/P "default brower for my web shortcuts"

Did you forget what you already said?

No, but a "default browser" for "web shortcuts" is unlikely
to be a file browser, or a computer browser, which is the
tangent you went along.

Unfortunately, sometimes Mouthguard does not read what she
replies to.

Johnny wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

... we still don't which web browser the OP wants to be the default
handler for the URL protocol.

IE11

That was not a choice in Default Apps (as shown in the help article to
which I linked in my reply to Lloyd)? Here's yet another walkthrough:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/h...0-just-5-steps

And here is a video on how to set the default web browser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAbJDvOe27A

As mentioned in that reply, web browsers often provide an option to make
them the default one. For IE11, see:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...efault-browser.