249207 - Making FFox 0.9+ default browser does not properly set DDE for file types

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Don Feliciano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Windows file associations for URL: are updated to use FireFox, but DDE settings
remain set to Internet Explorer.  Result is an error dialog stating that the
"application cannot be found", and a new FFox browser window.  This is a
regressive defect, as it works in FireFox 0.8 as expected.  Work-around is to
manually adjust DDE parameters for URL: file handlers.

Have reproduced on Windows 2003 and Windows XP.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Make IE your default browser
2.  Install FireFox 0.9+
3.  Make FireFox your default browser
4.  Start > Run > http://mozilla.org/

Actual Results:  
FireFox launched and opened http://mozilla.org/, but a Windows error dialog also
appeared stating that the requested appication could not be found.

Expected Results:  
Should not get error dialog

There is a manual work-around.  Change the DDE settings for all URL: file types

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

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