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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc
Today out of the blue my Firefox shortcut icon doesn't work. When I double click on it a message box opens up asking which application should be used to open ( example Adobe ) ??? When I right mouse button click on the icon and hit start it opens up fine. I did get a security warning this morning when I was on the Duramax website, supposedly due to a new ad they had. I've run all my virus software and a few items were found and neutralized and the computer is working fine. It is a Toshiba laptop if that matters with Windows 7 . Any ideas what's going on with the shortcut ?
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You should browse to c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe when it asks you which program to open. That will re-associate the icon with the program. You can also create a "new shortcut" from the "firefox.exe" file and copy that to the desktop.
As to why it happened... Sometimes the registry was changed on pc's sometimes the symbolic links on Mac's, but the net of this is that the icon no longer links to it's application. Sometimes it's a virus, malicious code, poor programming, lots of things.