It is *unusual* in the extreme for an app *NOT* to change File Manager
associations at installation-time. I can't think of a significant app that
I've installed in the past these years that didn't do so. Some of them go
wild: for example, Paint Shop Pro associates itself with every graphics format
that isn't alesady associated with another app.
What *is* unusual -- and violently anti-social, IMHO -- is re-associating
yourself with a given file type EVERY TIME THAT YOUR APP IS STARTED. I'm
surprised that nobody else has ever complained about this, but
EVERY TIME YOU START NETSCAPE, YOUR FILE MANAGER ASSOCIATION WITH .HTM
WILL BE CHANGED BACK TO NETSCAPE, EVEN IF YOU CHANGE IT BACK
MANUALLY -- AND EVEN IF YOU GO IN AND HACK THE REGISTRATION DATABASE!!
I have complained to them repeatedly and been ignored. I finally wrote a VB
app called Notscape that invokes Netscape, waits a while, and then changes the
association back to what I want it to be.
Try it yourself, and if you find the same problem *please* complain to
Netscape: there is no justification -- other than greed -- for undoing
changes that I make to my system manually *after* they've installed. They want
me to use Netscape -- I want the right to choose when and where.
This appears to me to be yet another case of unfounded MS-bashing, while
others whose sins are more egregious snicker to themselves...
Thanks.