408540 - Internet shortcut (.url) works in XP but fails in Vista; goes to "file:///C:..." instead of website.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Pete Klammer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121505 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121505 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Instead of opening http://www.radioparadise.com, we get this in Firefox URL box:
file:///N:/Music/Radio%20Paradise%20-%20eclectic%20online%20rock%20radio.url
But in XP (w/Firefox 2.0.0.11), website is opened as expected.
The internet shortcut we clicked was created in MSEI (by the way, how to do that in Firefox?  Right-click from website doesn't appear to offer "Save Shortcut"!)
Here is contents of .url:
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.radioparadise.com/
IDList=
IconFile=http://www.radioparadise.com/favicon.ico
IconIndex=1
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to favorite website, e.g., www.radioparadise.com, in MSIE
2.Right-click in non-sensitive page area
3.Select and click "Create Shortcut" -- creats .url on desktop
4.Navigate or minimize windows to view desktop
5.Double-click the new shortcut icon on desktop (Firefox IS your default browser, right?
6.Repeat in both XP and Vista (Home Premium here).

Actual Results:  
Firefox has lame string in URL box:
file:///N:/Music/Radio%20Paradise%20-%20eclectic%20online%20rock%20radio.url
... and page view is half-rendered

Expected Results:  
Should open same web page as was viewing when "Create Shortcut" clicked.

We have a .jpg showing everything in one view.  May we attach or e-mail it?

Comment 1

[Pete Klammer]

Attachment: Screenshot captures Firefox with lame URL, version box, notepad of .url contents.

Screenshot captured on Windows Vista Home Premium.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121403 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre and Windows Vista.

Creating a shortcut from Seamonkey (drag&Drop the small icon [favicon] in front of the URL in the URL Bar to the desktop) and also opening such a link from IE created with the same method in IE works as expected for me but this bug could be Firefox only.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox

Comment 4

[Pete Klammer]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Please read
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox
> 

We did apply the ddeexec edit in the Windows Registry (4 places) before reporting this bug.

Comment 5

[Pete Klammer]

Per comment #2, we tried from Firefox (Minefield) drag-and-drop icon before URL box to Vista desktop, then closed browser and double-clicked the desktop icon; got the same (broken, non-functional) view.  Very repeatable here.

Comment 6

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Pete: I tried to reproduce your issue using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010405 Minefield/3.0b3pre. I tried both dragging the radioparadise icon in Firefox to the desktop and launching (worked), as well as creating a shortcut in IE with IE as my default browser (also worked, but I switched Firefox to my default browser on launch).

Comment 7

[Jim]

I, too, am experiencing this issue. The desktop shortcut attempts to open a file such as "file:///C:/Users/jholland/Desktop/Woot%20One%20Day,%20One%20Deal%20(SM).URL" rather than opening up "http://www.woot.com". If I change my default browser to IE (how painful!), it works fine. I have made the registry edit for ddeexec, but this made no difference. How frustrating- we rely on desktop shortcuts heavily! Any ideas?

Comment 8

[Tom Edwards]

This is still a problem with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5. The same build on XP has no issues.

*This bug only affect shortcuts that are double-clicked, however.* If you drag the .url file onto the Fx window the page loads with the correct http address.

Comment 9

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Tom, could you try this with a trunk nightly? Thanks
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 10

[Tom Edwards]

WFM!

Comment 11

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This was fixed by bug 410156