Guru Needed

[stoutfellow]

Something odd has been happening recently. I think it began after the latest Firefox update, but I can't be sure.

I have a number of HTML pages on my hard drive, purely for my own use. Lately, whenever I click on one of them, I get a dialog box reading "There was a problem sending the command to the program". The only button reads "OK"; the title bar of the box is the local address of the HTML page. Almost immediately afterwards, the page opens and behaves properly. (The dialog box does not go away, however.) If I keep Firefox open for any length of time after this, eventually the dialog for connection to the 'Net comes up. If I approve connection, it does so, but Firefox remains open at the local page.

I've checked for malware using Ad-aware 6.0 and Spybot S&D 1.2. Neither reports any problems. I'm tentatively assuming that the upgrade to Firefox 1.8.20070.6982 is somehow related - not that that gets me any closer to knowing what to do! Anybody have any suggestions?

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what's going on there, but I would recommend getting the current versions of AdAware and Spybot (7.0 and 1.4 respectively).

If you create a shortcut that points to a URL and use it, do you get similar results?