Whenever I drag a shortcut to Chrome...

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...a page opens up containing this:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://stackoverflow.com/

Whenever I try this with IE, StackOverflow actually opens up. And, no, I don't want to set my default browser as Chrome (yet) as others use this computer, too.

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It seems Chrome won't read .url files when you pass this as a parameter. Strangely enough, it works if you drag and drop the .url file in an open instance of Chrome.

Additional discussion at :

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5d81b8d36ccd3684&hl=en

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