My wife was complaining that she could not use Firefox from her account as it will not use our broad band connection (which is default one in both user accounts) but will only connect via our old Tesco dial up! Doubly starnge as a) it works fine in my account and Firefox was installed after we got the broad band.

Any ideas how to fix this? (IE etc all works fine with the broad band connection from my wifes account).

That is a bit strange. Can you delete the Tesco dial up? Or do you still need it as back up?? I had a problem with Firefox and I had to connect manually to get online, I think I just reinstalled it and the problem went. What version of Firefox you using??

Sounds like the connection properties have been broken, try to change the dialup settings in IE, to set the default connection to the broadband one rather than tescos. There maybe a simillar setting in firefox, but I cant find it at the moment.

Yes you have to keep the Tesco dialup as a backup to allow you to report broad band problems. The broadband is the default connection, and as I say IE uses it as such. It is Firefox 1.0, and it was installed via my account, but other programs always seem to work ok from my wifes account. Stanger think again is that I never actually used the Tesco dialup account other than during the signing up process for broadband, my old default connection was with 'Stayfree', so the Tesco one was never default.

Hmm...in Firefox under your wife's account, if you go to "Tools" -> "Options" then choose the "Connection Settings" button, what's it set to? More importantly, is it all set to the same settings as it is under your account?

Rob.

I will have a look to see. The thing is that her account has a history of behaving a bit strangely, although not in such an obvious fashion before, but lets just say I spend more time fiddling with things to keep her account functioning than I do my own, this is just the latest example. For example originally I wanted her account limited, but then she could not print! I have since also found this on another XP PC, that only full accounts can use the printer!

You can always disable it temporarily by disabling the modem. I'd do that anyway if you're not using it - reduces the risk of dialers grabbing it for their premium rate calls...

You may have to tell your broadband software to use Firefox instead of IE.

When I got Firefox yesterday, i had to alter my Blueyonder settings to recognise Firefox and use it as the default browser instead of IE.