Shortcuts to other programs only open in Word 2007 after upgrade to Firefox 17

I had shortcuts to Volgistics and Facebook already on my desktop when I updated recently to Firefox 17. Since the update, those shortcuts direct those programs to Word 2007 which then opens the program into read-only in Word 2007. I can, however, connect with either program by ignoring the shortcut and manually typing in its url.

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