Google Talk problem

Posted by Jeffrey Vanneste at 10:46 AM on August 24, 2005

Category: Useful Tools

So like everybody else today I'm trying out Google Talk. I find the voice quality is really good and even though the interface is really plain I like it nice and simple. I installed google talk on my home machine and whenever I clicked on the Inbox link nothing would happen. Everyone else in the house had no problems. When I tried at work and it didn't work there I was pretty upset. I didn't want to have to run the notifier and google talk.
I was pretty convinced it was something to do with the default browser (I use Maxthon). I tried setting the default browser to IE and everything worked fine, same with firefox. I tried reinstalling Maxthon, still not working. In the end I found a program called SetBrowser which is a simple freeware application that sets the default broswer to anything you want.

"A very simple program that lets you set the default web browser in Windows. Select the browser you want, and the program will modify the required registry settings."

So now the links work great. I tried finding other people having this issue on forums but I had no luck. Hopefully this helps out some people.