256341 - get a windows error message when using bookmark shortcut

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[michael fiss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

when using an internet shortcut i get the error: "windows cannot find
'http://www.website.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."  
did not get that error message in prevous version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.make internet shortcut on desktop
2.double click on the icon, opening the selected url

Actual Results:  
Following error:

"windows cannot find 'http://www.website.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."

Expected Results:  
Brought up a new browser window with the specified url.

very annoying getting this error everytime I use a shortcut for a url

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Fixed in latest nightlies

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

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

v.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change