Outlook 2003 cuts off printouts of HTML message since IE upgrade

[MockY]

I upgraded Internet Explorer yesterday on my Terminal Server (Windows 2003) from version 7 to version 8. Ever since I did that, Excel and Outlook has been acting flaky, where Excel even freezes frequently.
The issue I have with Outlook 2003 is that some businesses send full blown HTML messages with query results that the employees later print out for their own records. This has worked just fine in the past, but now a large portion of the email gets cut of on the right when printed.
I assume that IE is used in order to display the message and I believe that the senders have not yet optimized their HTML to IE8.
So how do I go about to disable IE8 in Outlook? I would like to use Firefox instead since IE8 simply does not work to satisfaction in this case.

 

[cmeagan656]

I don't think that you can make Firefox your default browser only for Outlook 2003 and Excel. You can, however, make Firefox your default browser.

To make Firefox your default follow the instructions here. This would be done on a per user basis as it is a personal preference.

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[MockY]

I wish I could make Firefox the default browser system wide, but 2 of the sites this company relies on does not work with FF. I hope that this changes with time since those sites are relatively old.
However, I ended up rolling back to IE7 and everything seems to work like it should again. So by the time IE8 is stable enough to introduce to the system, my hope is that the incompatible sites are updated and I don't have to use IE at all.

 

[cmeagan656]

I'm glad that you got it working.

I'm curious as to what sites (other than Microsoft updates) don't work with Firefox. I haven't used anything but Firefox for 20 months now and have yet to run into a site that won't work on it. Even games on pogo.com that claim to only run on IE run perfectly fine on Firefox. As for the Microsoft updates, I have my admin account set to use IE as the default browser.

I'm not doubting your comments. I'm just wondering what the sites are.

Cheers.

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[MockY]

I personally have never used IE. I started with Netscape back in the day and later switched to Firefox. I don't even run Windows, and never will.
However, tragic reality is that some sites that the employees at my company must use, are heavily based on ActiveX and other nonsense (such as completely developed in asp.net). One example is

http://www.btisinc.com/.

Even though most of this site works, the actual functionality of it is rejected if using another browser than IE. I personally think it should be illegal to do such, but that is probably why I'm not in the legal field.

 

[cmeagan656]

Thanks for the link. As stated, I was just curious because I made FF our default browser at work at the beginning of the year and haven't had any complaints - yet.




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