129770 - Internet Shortcuts error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58770

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Schmitt]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

I have a new machine with Windows 2000 Professional. I just installed Mozilla on
it. My problem is that Internet Shortcuts do not work in Mozilla -- they get the
error described below.

This was working fine on my previous machine, which has Windows NT 4.

Both machines have IE 5.5.


Reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Internet Explorer to be the default browser.

2. Now open Mozilla, and set it to be the default. (Just to make sure)

3. Open www.mozilla.org

4. Drag the shortcut icon from the navigation toolbar to the desktop. It creates
an internet shortcut. It is actually file mozilla.org.URL, containing the text: 

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.mozilla.org/

5. Double-click the internet shortcut to open it.


Actual Results:
1. When you open the internet shortcut, it opens the page but there is also an
error:

  Cannot find the file 'http://www.mozilla.org/" (or one of its components).
Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are
available.

2. The icon for the internet shortcut is the IE icon. On my Win NT machine it is
the Mozilla icon. This is suspicious.


Expected Results:  It should open the page without an error.


Additional info:

1. The same problem occurs if you use Start/Run to open a URL.

2. If IE is open when you double-click the shortcut, nothing happens. If you
close IE then you get the "cannot find the file" error.

3. If you change the default browser back to IE, the shortcuts work fine.

4. If you create the shortcut from IE you get the same problem.

5. If I click on a URL in an email (in Outlook) it opens the page, but it also
opens up a file browser dialog "Locate Link Browser", which is looking for files
of type .exe.  So I navigated to mozilla.exe. It opened the web page again. But
now when I click on a URL in Outlook it opens *TWO* windows. 

5. I think that the shortcut file is not the problem. I suspect that there is a
problem with how mozilla is registered as the default browser.

Comment 1

[Warner Young]

Either dupe of bug 58770, or related to it.

Comment 2

[Olav Vitters]

Bug 58770 also describes the shortcut problem.. duping

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58770 ***