Bookmark opens RSS feed instead of HTML

Hi -
This has happened to me several times and I don't know why. I will use a bookmark to open a specific page, and I'll get the feed:// instead of the html page. In addition, my bookmark then changes to the RSS feed. Anyone else ever had this happen?
Ron

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> I've got the same problem, but I got it on a PC with
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> Does anybody know which config file to delete on a PC?
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> Thanks!

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