291181 - Installing FFox as default browser and then uninstalling destroys ".url" file type for Internet Explorer

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 255225

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Alexander Enchevich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

The file type for .url files on Win2000 is destroyed when FireFox is
uninstalled, if FFox was installed as the default browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with a clean install of Windows (I used Win2000 but maybe happens on
other versions too). IE should be installed as the default browser. 
2.[optional] Verify that the file type ".URL - Internet Shortcut" is assigned
the following actions:
    open--> rundll32.exe shdocvw.dll,OpenURL %l
    print--> rundll32.exe C:\WINNT\system32\mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "%1"
    printto--> rundll32.exe C:\WINNT\system32\mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "%1" "%2"
"%3" "%4"

3. Open any URL in IE and create a shortcut to it on the desktop (drag the icon
from the address bar)

4. Install FireFox as default browser (I installed 1.0.1). Note that the
shortcut files on the desktop don't work anymore, and that their icons changed
(but this is not the bug I am reporting).

5. Uninstall Firefox.

6. The shortcut files on the desktop have now changed to <URL Name>.url - the
.url extension was not visible before. IE can not open them anymore.


Actual Results:  
The way the shortcut files are displayed has changed from <URL Name> to <URL
Name>.url - the .url extension was not visible before. IE can not open them anymore.


Expected Results:  
Restore the file type for URL files to the original state, so that the files are
openable by IE.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255225 ***

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

See bug 255225, comment 9 for a work-around