MSN Messenger links

[entropy]

Ok, I know MSN Messenger and IE are made by m$, so it makes sense that they trick MSN into opening links *only* in IE, no matter what you set the Default Browser to. I hate regular IE. Is there any way (plugin, hack, reg key, etc) I can force MSN Messenger into using MyIE2 to open links?

[Shorty]

Have tried, searched and failed.

If you find out.. let us all know I think! :)

[entropy]

I know, I can't find any app or plugin (for messenger or Plus! 3) or anything...:(

[DOSMAN]

Don't use MSN messenger.

Use Trillian.
http://www.trillian.cc

[entropy]

Tried, don't like the interface :(

[entropy]

*update*
Someone over at the MsgPlus! forums (i went there to suggest it as a feature) informed me it works with most browsers, Firefox included, but for some stupid reason it refuses to recognize Maxthon/MyIE2 as the default browser. What craptastical luck.

[entropy]

Right. So I finally got pissed off enough at IE to do another search for this. I found a post over at Maxthon Forums with some registry entries that supposedly fix it. I'm willing to give it a shot, but I have a question. What exactly do I change? Does the '@' symbol mean make a new entry, and put ContentType to 'text/html' ? I've played with the registry quite a bit before, but I just want to be sure before I bork something...

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="MaxthonHTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="MaxthonHTML"
"Content Type"="text/html"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyIEHTML\Shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Maxthon\\Maxthon.exe\" \"%1\""