Comment 1 for bug 185165

I can confirm this bug - it is a long standing issue over several Ubuntu releases. It is (in my opinion, as one migrating from windoze) a major impediment to useability of ubuntu for those people switching operating systems. It seems really daft that something as simple as clicking on existing internet shortcuts is not supported.

This should be given fairly high importance given that most migrators from windoze will inevitably have al least some, perhaps many, shortcuts they wish to use.