diff --git a/toolkit/components/commandlines/src/nsCommandLine.cpp b/toolkit/components/commandlines/src/nsCommandLine.cpp
index c4b79330150..70e34dcf455 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/commandlines/src/nsCommandLine.cpp
+++ b/toolkit/components/commandlines/src/nsCommandLine.cpp
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ protected:
 					void *aClosure);
 
   void appendArg(const char* arg);
-  void resolveShortcutURL(nsILocalFile* aFile, nsACString& outURL);
   nsresult EnumerateHandlers(EnumerateHandlersCallback aCallback, void *aClosure);
   nsresult EnumerateValidators(EnumerateValidatorsCallback aCallback, void *aClosure);
 
@@ -443,28 +442,18 @@ nsCommandLine::ResolveURI(const nsAString& aArgument, nsIURI* *aResult)
   nsCOMPtr<nsIIOService> io = do_GetIOService();
   NS_ENSURE_TRUE(io, NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY);
 
-  nsCOMPtr<nsIURI> workingDirURI;
-  if (mWorkingDir) {
-    io->NewFileURI(mWorkingDir, getter_AddRefs(workingDirURI));
-  }
-
   nsCOMPtr<nsILocalFile> lf (do_CreateInstance(NS_LOCAL_FILE_CONTRACTID));
   rv = lf->InitWithPath(aArgument);
   if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) {
     lf->Normalize();
-    nsCAutoString url;
-    // Try to resolve the url for .url files.
-    resolveShortcutURL(lf, url);
-    if (!url.IsEmpty()) {
-      return io->NewURI(url,
-                        nsnull,
-                        workingDirURI,
-                        aResult);
-    }
-
     return io->NewFileURI(lf, aResult);
   }
 
+  nsCOMPtr<nsIURI> workingDirURI;
+  if (mWorkingDir) {
+    io->NewFileURI(mWorkingDir, getter_AddRefs(workingDirURI));
+  }
+
   return io->NewURI(NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8(aArgument),
                     nsnull,
                     workingDirURI,
@@ -488,22 +477,6 @@ nsCommandLine::appendArg(const char* arg)
   mArgs.AppendString(warg);
 }
 
-void
-nsCommandLine::resolveShortcutURL(nsILocalFile* aFile, nsACString& outURL)
-{
-  nsCOMPtr<nsIFileProtocolHandler> fph;
-  nsresult rv = NS_GetFileProtocolHandler(getter_AddRefs(fph));
-  if (NS_FAILED(rv))
-    return;
-
-  nsCOMPtr<nsIURI> uri;
-  rv = fph->ReadURLFile(aFile, getter_AddRefs(uri));
-  if (NS_FAILED(rv))
-    return;
-
-  uri->GetSpec(outURL);
-}
-
 NS_IMETHODIMP
 nsCommandLine::Init(PRInt32 argc, char** argv, nsIFile* aWorkingDir,
                     PRUint32 aState)
diff --git a/toolkit/components/commandlines/test/Makefile.in b/toolkit/components/commandlines/test/Makefile.in
index 09eccc7551e..1e2e001845e 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/commandlines/test/Makefile.in
+++ b/toolkit/components/commandlines/test/Makefile.in
@@ -45,16 +45,9 @@ VPATH		= @srcdir@
 include $(DEPTH)/config/autoconf.mk
 
 MODULE		= test_harness_commandlines
-TESTROOT	= $(shell cd $(DEPTH) && pwd)/_tests/xpcshell-simple/$(MODULE)
 
 XPCSHELL_TESTS = \
                  unit \
                  $(NULL)
 
 include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk
-
-ifneq (,$(filter-out OS2 Darwin,$(OS_ARCH)))
-# Hack to allow preprocessing of test_bug410156.js
-libs:: unit/test_bug410156.js.in
-	$(PYTHON) $(MOZILLA_DIR)/config/Preprocessor.py $(DEFINES) $(ACDEFINES) $^ > $(TESTROOT)/unit/test_bug410156.js
-endif