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How do I get Windows Picture and Fax Viewer to be the application used to view pics, images? It doesn't even show up in the list of "other applications".

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freddyc
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Image files(jeg, gif, etc) are assocaited with the picture and fax viewer in the files options but firefox doesn't see the app, even inthe open with other list

Image files(jeg, gif, etc) are assocaited with the picture and fax viewer in the files options but firefox doesn't see the app, even inthe open with other list

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cor-el
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The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is a DLL and is started via a rundll32.exe call and can't be set as an application to handle images in Firefox 3 and later versions.
You need to set Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as the default viewer in Windows.
Then it should be listed automatically in the Mozilla Firefox Browse dialog.

You can look at an alternative program for viewing images: