251164 - ShellExecute() from an external app returns an error code although url gets handled successfully

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Alexander Lazareviæ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

If Firefox is the standard webbrowser and I use the the code below in an
external application then I get a result value of 2, which is an error code
according to (1). With IE there is no such problem.

result = ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "http://www.google.de", NULL, NULL, 1);

(1)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shellexecute.asp

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
result == 2

Expected Results:  
result > 32

Comment 1

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

This bug is a duplicate of Bug 246078 -> it's just another side effect.

When first tried on my system, I got 0x0000002A (== 42) returned.  However, I
have done a workaround for bug 246078.  So I set IE as default, tried again, got
42.  Set Firefox back as default, THEN I got 2 returned.  Reapplied the
workaround, and  the function returned 42 again.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

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