Firefox website shortcuts only open to my homepage instead of the correct URL

so i have a windows 8 laptop that i had installed firefox on. i have a few shortcuts to websites like youtube, facebook ect. However when ever i open them it just opens up to my homepage which is "google.com" instead of the correct URL.
The same issue occurs with any other browser like IE but im going to be using firefox that's why i asked on this forum.
the computer im asking the question on is not the computer that im having the issues on.

Does this only happen when Firefox isn't running or also when you already have a Firefox window open?
Make sure that Firefox is set correctly as the default browser.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/How+to+make+Firefox+the+default+browser
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Setting+Firefox+as+the+default+browser+does+not+work
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser
You can check for problems with DDE.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox

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