251457 - "cannot find the file..." when double clicking internet shortcut

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[genuZ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

When double clicking an internet shortcut made by either IE (create shortcut) or
the Firefox extensions Deskcut (http://deskcut.mozdev.org), the page loads fine
but an error appears: 

"Cannot find the file '<insert file location.url>' (or one of its components). 
Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are
available."

I'm not sure if this would count as a conversion issue because my dad has about
100 internet shortcuts made with IE & won't use Firefox because of this (he has
about 1000+ bookmarks too-- these are for "quick access" ;))

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Double click internet shortcut.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Error message.

Page still loads correctly & it works fine if you drag it into FF (doesn't work
using Open file loaction though, FF just writes the page in plain text)

Expected Results:  
No error popup

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

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