Excel 2007 starts ie always, not my default browser firefox 3.6.1.2

Regardless of my default browser settings, excel 2007 always opens links in IE. This is extremely annoying especially when I am trying to debug an application.
Note this is because Firefox is not opening not about when it opens. So far, excel is the only application where I've noticed this.

You have a user agent that identifies you as Firefox 2.0.0.20
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20 FBSMTWB
See [[Finding your Firefox version]] and [[Web sites or add-ons incorrectly report incompatible browser]] 
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_your_useragent_string_to_its_compiled-in_default
Check the general.useragent prefs on the about:config page. 
You can open the about:config page via the location bar, just like you open a website.
Filter: general.useragent
If any general.useragent prefs are bold (user set) then right-click that pref and choose Reset.

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