Default browser isn't invoked

Lately, when I run .JSP and .HTML file, the status says 'Ruuning, Compiled successfully.' But, the HTML(or jsp) file never runs in the browser. The files are perfectly fine, but, I have no idea what has changed. How do I reset the default browser, which is in this case, IE5.
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To launch the browser, JDev "executes" a .html file, and lets the Windows file associations take care of launching the right program. So if the .html extension isn't mapped to any application in Windows, or if the mapped application executable doesn't exist, then the browser won't launch.
You can override this behavior by going to Tools | Preferences - Web Browser/Proxy and specify a full path to the browser executable that you would like to use.

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Alan,
You got me started on this.
Unfortunately, IE also messed up my browser,
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// Bare Bones Browser Launch                          //
// Version 1.5                                        //
// December 10, 2005                                  //
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