247379 - Firefox doesn't seem to remove any Internet Explorer DDE entries.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Gavin Chappell]

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

Uninstalled FFx 0.8, and IE 6sp1 became my default browser again. I did a clean
install of FFx 0.9, and asked it to become my default browser. It did so, but
then every time I entered a URL into the Run box FFx would open and load the
URL, but I had an error box pop up behind my FFx window saying:

"Windows cannot find 'www.google.com'. Make sure you typed the name correctly,
and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click
Search"

I fixed this by going into My Computer\Tools\File Types, opening up the things I
wanted to open in FFx (ie "URL: HyperText Transport Protocol"), opening the
Advanced box, editing the action called "open" and deselecting the "Use DDE"
box. I don't recall what the actual values were in the DDE boxes, but they
specifically mentioned IExplore, so I just disabled them altogether.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Firefox opens, loads URL, Windows error message in the background

Expected Results:  
Firefox opens, loads URL, no errors.

Windows XP, SP1, all updates. Clean install of Firefox 0.9, no profile imported.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

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