When I click on a link in an email I always get a message 'General failure URL :.... unable to find file' and seconds later the web address opens. Is there anyway to stop this?

I get a message saying 'General Failure. The URL was: ".........". The system cannot find the file specified' whenever I click on a link in an email and then seconds later the web site opens. If I open firefox and then click a bookmark or search I don't have a problem

See this lnk for a fix, it worked for me!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200103/fix_outlook_general_failure_error_for_email_links.html

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# Press Alt+T
# Select Options
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See this lnk for a fix, it worked for me!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200103/fix_outlook_general_failure_error_for_email_links.html

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The only way to have such links not open Firefox is to set another browser the default browser.
That MozillaZine Knowledge Base article shows how to set another browser like IE as the default browser.
See Setting default browser manually:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser

Zzxc: When I click on a link in my email it doesn't go to the page. It is a blank page. It will work in internet explorer. When I sign in at certain sites, it doesn't redirect. Why is that?

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== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
zzxc: When I click on a link in my email it doesn't go to the page. It is a blank page. It will work in internet explorer. When I sign in at certain sites, it doesn't redirect. Why is that?
I am still having the same problem. I did what you said to do, but it didn't help. I cleared all of firefox's cache and still doesn't work.
== Firefox version
==
most recent
== Operating system
==
Windows 7
== Plugins installed
==
just windows,itunes, flash

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# Press Alt+T
# Select Options
# Select Advanced Panel
# Select General Tab
# You will see option "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload page"
# Uncheck it as given in the screenshot.
<img src=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7456129/Firefox/advancedgeneraltab.jpg width=600px height=600px>
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New Tab Homepage extension: <br />
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

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In terms of control over this issue, the ranking is thus...
iTune folks
You
us/anyone else.
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I am running on an iMac OS X 10.6.3 using Firefox 3.6.3 as my default browser and I use Postbox 1.1.5 as my email client. Anytime I click on a link within an email message two instances of Firefox open, one with my home page and one with the site the link was meant for. This happens only when Firefox is not already open. If Firefox is running and a link is clicked on it opens normally within the open instance of Firefox. I have contacted Postbox and am currently awaiting a response to see if they have any suggestions. While this is not a serious issue it is a bit annoying. I have Firefox set to open new links in tabs not new instances of windows, so it shouldn't be that. Any help in getting this to stop would be greatly appreciated.
== This happened ==
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== Not sure, it's been going on for quite awhile.

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