247056 - error window when opening links from other programs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When opening links from other applications like FeedDemon 1.0 or Mozilla
Thunderbird 0.6 Windows XP shows a pop-up error window "Windows cannot find
<URL>. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for
a file, click the Start button, and then click Search." After confirming with
OK, the page is loaded in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link in external application such as FeedDemon
2. Pop-Up window with error message appears
3. URL is loaded in Firefox



Expected Results:  
Opening the link without any errors.

Comment 1

[Chris]

Attachment: Pop-up window with error message screenshot

Comment 2

[Jared Chambliss]

I am also having the same bug, but it is only occurring on my laptop, not my
desktop which also has Firefox 0.9.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246078 ***