Starting to look like we are headed in the right direction here;
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox
That seems to cinch it for me that there is an issue with the DDE
implementation in FF.
On 9/26/07, Kim Gräsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> That could well be... But would the Google toolbar change the DDE
> setup for .html?
>
> I don't understand why the search toolbar changes the behavior of the
> browser at startup.
>
> I'm not intimately familiar with DDE, so the details evade me, but I
> think we may be onto something here. Please post back if you find
> anything out.
>
> - Kim
>
> On 9/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually Kim I may disagree. I had run into similar issue today. However
> if
> > you manually drag and drop a html file to FF icon or launch from command
> > line it appears to work fine to me. If I could be so bold to venture a
> guess
> > I would be its the DDE setup for html files. This would explain why it
> was
> > an IE error window I was getting when FF was the default browser,
> windows is
> > passing off the "WWW_OpenURL" topic via DDE to any apps registered for
> the
> > .html files (in my case systernals process explorer showed MS word
> getting a
> > hit and also free download manager).
> >
> > So my guess is its DDE related (used to do a fair bit of DDE stuff back
> in
> > the day). I guess the way to test it would be to go into the file
> > associations and disable DDE for html files, I may try that tomorrow.
> >
> > Just my 2cents.
> >
> >
> > On 9/25/07, Kim Gräsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I took the time and changed our ShellExecute calls to use
> > > ShellExecuteEx, which has better error reporting.
> > >
> > > With a clean port from the old to the new, I got the error after
> > > installing the Google Toolbar, and the resulting error code said: File
> > > not found, indicating that DQSDLaunch.html (the file generated to
> > > launch searches) did not exist.
> > >
> > > This seemed to be a problem with the protocol handler/file mapping for
> > > .html files, as the file was most decidedly there.
> > >
> > > So, this looks like a problem with Firefox in general, after the
> > > Google Toolbar has been installed -- you can try and run Open from the
> > > context menu of any .html file, and you'll get the same error -- File
> > > not found.
> > >
> > > I'll see if I can figure out a workaround, but we may need to start
> > > bugging Google/Mozilla.
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the good problem reports!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > - Kim
>
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