My bloviated meandering follows what David E. Ross graced us with on
11/29/2012 7:56 PM:
On 11/29/12 4:57 PM, Sailfish wrote:
My bloviated meandering follows what David E. Ross graced us with on
11/29/2012 4:29 PM:
Windows XP SP3
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14
Since installing SeaMonkey 2.14, I have noticed that new Web shortcuts
have a bad icon. Instead of the dark blue disc with the light blue
critter, it's the "unknown file type" icon. I get this when I drag from
the address area (URI bar) either to my desktop or into an open folder.
Is this a known bug?
Try reselect Seamonkey 2.14 as your default browser via Windows and see
if that fixes it.
With SeaMonkey closed, I made IE my default browser. Then I launched
SeaMonkey and made it my default browser. That did not help.
I finally opened My Computer, selected [Tools > Folder Options] on the
menu bar, and selected the File Types tab. Near the top of the list of
file types, Internet Shortcut already had the blue SeaMonkey icon. But
near the bottom of the list I found the file type URL with the "unknown"
icon. I could not correct this until I deleted it entirely and then
recreated it as a new file type. Now it works.
Since I had not touched Folder Options in some time, I still question
whether something in the installation of SeaMonkey 2.14 might have
corrupted the icon setting.
I see you are on WinXP. I vaguely recall having problems like that on
that OS (and having to manually override the setting like you mentioned)
but it's been two OS's back and my recollection of the quirks in XPs all
seem to dim with every passing day. Now I'm saddled with all the quirks
on Win7 :)
It's good to read you found a solution.
Cheers
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