Desktop URL shortcuts stopped working, .URL default app set correctly ... help?

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Hi folks,Over the last few days I've had to reinstall Office on this Windows 10 Home system, and had a Firefox update to 100.0.2 as well. Everything working fine up through last night -- URL shortcuts on the desktop would open Firefox (default browser) just fine.Shut down. Cold boot this morning. Manually open Firefox as usual. Double-click on desktop URL shortcuts (or right-click, Open) gets a real quick hourglass and then nothing. No error, no browser tab.So I checked: default browser still set to Firefox; .URL filetype still set to "Internet Browser."I toggled the default browser to Edge,

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