I’m trying to help a little old lady with her DSL webmai using Firefox. Every time she starts up Firefox pointing to her yahoo account a Windows pop-up appears stating “Windows cannot find …. dsl.sbc.yahoo.com. …” Then Firefox opens up with the dsl.sbc.yahoo.com page that Windows says it can’t find. I think this is a Windows problem and not something to do with Firefox. In fact, if I remember correctly it happens with Internet Explorer too. I can’t figure out why Windows pops that message up every time. It is simply an annoyance as she can close the error message and everything works normally after that.
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Puzzling Error Message (XP SP2)
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 3, 2008 at 6:21 pm #455759Viewing 1 reply threadAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody_MVPDecember 3, 2008 at 6:55 pm #1135841[indent]
Every time she starts up Firefox pointing to her yahoo account
[/indent]For my benefit, at least, you would need to explain what “starting Firefox pointing to her Yahoo account” means!
Have you set up a Firefox shortcut which specifies a target webpage, perhaps?
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm #1135847I suspect your problem is the one covered in Windows error opening Internet shortcut or local HTML file – Firefox. I quite frequently seem to need to take this action.
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