FireFox and desktop URL shortcuts

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does anyone else use URL shortcuts on their desktop with FIreFox. i used to use these all the time with IE. now after re-creating the shortcuts with FireFox every time i double click my shortcuts i get an error message saying that "Windows cannot find http://website.com on this computer. Please check the location.. blah blah" BUT FireFox still opens the website behind the error message. does anyone else have this problem? i can open the shortcuts with IE and they work fine without the error message.
 
I'm pretty sure the reason behind it is that Netscape / Mozilla has always used a different format for passing arguments (mostly because they never targeted windows-only)

A proper call to firefox looks like [...firefox.exe -url "http://webaddress.com"], and I suspect that the shortcut just doesn't allow that to work properly. IE, on the other hand, just uses [.../iexplore.exe http://webaddress.com]

So anyway, I think that's the underlying reason. I have no idea what (if anything) might fix it.
 
i am pretty sure this is a bug in the .9 release about firefox not registering itself correctly as the default browser. Search for this bug in bugzilla and you will find a work around for it. I am too lazy to bring up the page right now and find it myself. That should solve your problem, it did atleast for me
 
never did find any info about this on bugzilla. this broswer is great except for this minor problem. i suppose i can just quit using desktop url shortcuts :mad: :( i am suprised more people dont have this issue.
 
Just tried it myself and got an error message. I believe that lomn75 was correct though on why it doesn't work. Not a problem for me since I have all my common apps mapped to my keyboard and remote, nothing beats a clear desktop. :D
Never used desktop shortcuts anyways, I find it kind of dumb and makes for an ugly desktop myself buy I can see how some like it.
 
cool.. i thought it was just my computer that does this... my start page is set to google.com anyawys... so i can use the little thing if the top right instead anyways....

but at least i know i didn't screw something up on my computer... and it only does that shit sometimes.. (maybe it is after i use IE, hmmm.. .i have to play around with that)
 
I got it to work this way. Here is a desktop shortcut to hardforums on the desktop:

This was the shortcut created when I still had IE as default browser and then made firefox the default:

http://hardforums.com

To get it to work, I created a new shortcut and this one works:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://hardforum.com

It's not a "regular url" shortcut as with IE. Now the "target" is firefox.exe; notice the quotes they are needed to get the path right.

(edited typos)
 
Thats how I have to get some apps to work (The calendar plugin outside of FF).
 
I really have no need for it, except that sometimes I would like to open a destop program, like Quicken or Word. For those, I use the External Applications extension which works well. It's handy for my mail client, too. I know that this is different, but I mention it because in a way it's related.
 
roncomatic said:
I got it to work this way. Here is a desktop shortcut to hardforums on the desktop:

This was the shortcut created when I still had IE as default browser and then made firefox the default:

http://hardforums.com

To get it to work, I created a new shortcut and this one works:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://hardforum.com

It's not a "regular url" shortcut as with IE. Now the "target" is firefox.exe; notice the quotes they are needed to get the path right.

(edited typos)
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when i get home from work today i will try this
 
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