Why websites pinned to taskbar fail to open firefox?

Using Windows 7 and Firefox 6.0.2, when I click on a shortcut pinned to the Firefox shortcut in the taskbar (after right clicking on the shortcut to bring up the list of pinned and frequent sites), nothing happens. If Firefox is already open, then clicking on the shortcut works.
Prior to the last updates for Windows and Firefox this always worked to open Firefox at the desired website. It now works for none of the pinned url's.

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