Mac Mail Problem/Question

I'm having trouble with opening links via e-mail in my Mail application. When I open an e-mail and try to click on a link my web browser pops up and nothing happens. I've tested this with Safari, Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla is my current browser and the one I use exclusively...unfortunately it is also the only one of the three that will not open links from my e-mail. When I switch to Safari/Chrome as my default browser the links open fine. My question, is there a way to change which browser Mail uses without changing my default browser? Or is there a way to get Firefox working with my Mail application? I would like to keep using Firefox but it is a pain in the behind to have to copy and paste the link every single time.
Thanks
Message was edited by: MCW3516
Message was edited by: MCW3516

Hi M, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
First, have you updated to the latest FF? If not, try that first.
You may want to play around with prefs in Mail and/or FF, but off-hand I cannot think of what it would be.
If that doesn't take care of it, try opening Safari, set FF as default browser and then do a PRAM Reset.
And if still no luck, try Safe Boot.
Message was edited by: tjk

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