[Web4lib] promoting online databases on public terminals

[Cary Gordon]

It sounds to me like a Windows issue. Either Firefox is not set up as  
the default handler for URLs, or Windows is not properly handling the  
dropped link. The latter could possibly be related to security settings.

In other words, what you are doing should work, so long as you are not  
saving a session-dependent URL, and it does not sound like that is the  
issue.

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com

On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Kelli Staley wrote:

> Maybe I'm doing it wrong... I tried to make Firefox shortcuts to the  
> specific sites by
> Load the desired page in Fx.
> Drag the address bar to the desktop & it creates a shortcut.
>
> If firefox isn't already running, clicking on the shortcut says the  
> application "<website name here>" cannot be found.
> Click OK, then it launches Fx and loads the page.  I can't have a  
> bunch of seemingly broken links on the desktop, anybody know what do  
> to differently?
>
> Kelli Staley
> Information Technology Department Head
> Lansing Public Library
> 2750 Indiana Avenue
> Lansing, IL 60438
> (708) 474-2447 ext. 123
> http://www.lansing.lib.il.us
> kstaley at lansing.lib.il.us
>