Can't get Parallels 3.0 to reset to open URLs in Mac OS X

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jamesmarrduncan

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I've always had URLs clicked in Windows set to open in Camino (my default Mac OS X browser). I recently installed Firefox 3 in Windows, and accidentally clicked to have it set itself as the default Web browser in Windows. Ever since then, all URLs opened in Windows are opening in Windows Firefox, even though I have Parallels set to open them in Mac OS X.

I've tried resetting the Parallels "Shared Web applications: Web browser" preference to Default and then back to Mac OS X with various combinations of restarting Parallels and/or the VM, and have tried editing the plist file as described at this post, but so far it's still opening everything in Windows Firefox

I'm running Windows XP SP3 in Parallels 3.0 build 5608, Mac OS X 10.5.4. Any ideas of what else I can try here?

Thanks!
 
@John: Thanks for the tip there (I actually had no idea that edit function existed). However: I went to Applications > Edit > Firefox, and htm and html were already associated with Camino, as they were in every other application I checked. I tried setting those to Firefox to see if then setting them back to Camino would fix it, but after doing so and clicking OK, then going back to Applications > Edit > Firefox, it was still showing them set to Camino. I thought perhaps I might need to make a change at, say, Applications > Edit > Adobe Acrobat (since the main way I'm checking this, and the main way I need to use it, is by clicking links in PDFs in Acrobat), but there Camino was also already associated with htm (there was no html option). I tried setting it to Adobe Acrobat, clicking OK, reopening, and setting it back on Camino, but although the change to Adobe Acrobat stuck, neither that change nor the change back to Camino made a difference--clicked links still opened in Firefox.

I also then tried shutting the VM down, going to Shared Applications in the Configuration Editor, and enabling the "Share Mac applications to Windows" option (although I never had that checked before and all had worked fine), and that also made no difference in the behavior and no difference in whether the change to Firefox in Applications > Edit > Firefox would stick.

Any other ideas? Is there a preferences file I might need to trash here or something?
 
Another way,
Right click htm, html in Windows open with - Choose Program..
Open with -Camino
check Always use this program to open such kind of files - OK
 
Hmm, that didn't help either. Fortunately, I remembered that although I excluded my Parallels folder from Time Machine, I had made a few manual backups of it--so I ended up just rolling back to one from before I'd upgraded Firefox (and vowing to agree to no changes to default Web browsers in the future), which got things back to normal. Thanks, though!
 
If anyone finds a way to get rid of this 'Firefox 3 everywhere' syndrome without resorting to backup copies of entire installation - please tell us how to do it.
 
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