MalformedURLException:unknown protocol: socket

[JackyD]

Hi there,

When launching Minion I get the splash screen and then I get following error after a while

java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: socket
	at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:592)
	at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:482)
	at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:431)
	at java.net.URI.toURL(URI.java:1096)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector.connectFailed(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:415)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)
	at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:432)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:527)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:211)
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:308)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:1003)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:951)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:850)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1300)
	at javafx.scene.text.Font.loadFont(Font.java:367)
	at com.zam.minion.Minion.<clinit>(Minion.java:37)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:276)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.access$000(LauncherImpl.java:47)
	at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$1.run(LauncherImpl.java:115)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

I'm on Windows 8.1 running Java 7U54

If there's any more info I need to supply just go ahead and ask.