Fix: "General Failure" while launching FireFox URLs from Outlook


	Fix: "General Failure" while launching FireFox URLs from Outlook

travislaborde

4-12-2007 8:06 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0954fa0b-3c0d-44cf-b184-a4b06a342511/40A7C15F-1FEF-48A7-972A-F603CDCDEDC5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FixQuotGeneralFailurequotWhileLaunchingFireFoxURLsFromOutlook.aspx" href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FixQuotGeneralFailurequotWhileLaunchingFireFoxURLsFromOutlook.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hanselman.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FixQuotGeneralFailurequotWhileLaunchingFireFoxURLsFromOutlook.aspx"><P><A atomicselection="true" href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/GeneralFailurewhilelaunchingFireFoxURLsf_BABB/firefoxdefaultbrowser%5B9%5D.png"><IMG width="200" height="268" align="right" src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/GeneralFailurewhilelaunchingFireFoxURLsf_BABB/firefoxdefaultbrowser_thumb%5B7%5D.png" /></A><A href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/GeneralFailurewhilelaunchingFireFoxURLsf_BABB/firefoxdefaultbrowser%5B9%5D.png" target="_blank" title="Open link in new window" class="new-window-link"><IMG src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/themes/TheRightStuff2/images/new-window-icon.gif" alt="Open link in new window" /></A> There seems to be an <A href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246078">ongoing chaotic series of bugs, or bug, around "Set as Default Browser" and FireFox</A><A href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246078" target="_blank" title="Open link in new window" class="new-window-link"><IMG src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/themes/TheRightStuff2/images/new-window-icon.gif" alt="Open link in new window" /></A>. Recently I updated my FireFox to 2.0.0.3 and suddenly whenever I click on a URL in Outlook I get a message box with "General Failure." Occasionally I'll get a "Locate Link Browser" message as well.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FixQuotGeneralFailurequotWhileLaunchingFireFoxURLsFromOutlook.aspx"><P>The issue seems to be some of the old Windows DDE stuff where a DDE message is sent to an application after it started up to pass information - in this case, the URL. Today, we prefer to pass the URL on the command line. It also makes for a faster launch.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FixQuotGeneralFailurequotWhileLaunchingFireFoxURLsFromOutlook.aspx"><P>Even though this was a problem with FireFox 0.9, it's still happening today. (I'm not the only one). <A href="http://johnhaller.com/jh/">John Haller</A><A href="http://johnhaller.com/jh/" target="_blank" title="Open link in new window" class="new-window-link"><IMG src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/themes/TheRightStuff2/images/new-window-icon.gif" alt="Open link in new window" /></A> has a <A href="http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_bug_246078.asp">fix in the form of a Registry File</A><A href="http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_bug_246078.asp" target="_blank" title="Open link in new window" class="new-window-link"><IMG src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/themes/TheRightStuff2/images/new-window-icon.gif" alt="Open link in new window" /></A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FixQuotGeneralFailurequotWhileLaunchingFireFoxURLsFromOutlook.aspx"><P>You can also make the change yourself in the <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439251818?ie=UTF8&tag=diabeticbooks&link_code=em1&camp=212341&creative=380621&creativeASIN=0439251818&adid=06b6341e-5faf-4564-b47c-9810a3c2dcf3" target="_blank" id="amzn_cl_link_0" name="0439251818">Explorer UI</A> via Tools|Options|FileTypes. Go to the ones marked (NONE) and start with <A href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HyperText...and">URL:HyperText...and</A><A href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HyperText...and" target="_blank" title="Open link in new window" class="new-window-link"><IMG src="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/themes/TheRightStuff2/images/new-window-icon.gif" alt="Open link in new window" /></A> go to Advanced, then Edit the Open action and clear out the DDE Message TextBox.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/40A7C15F-1FEF-48A7-972A-F603CDCDEDC5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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