Bug 1105640

Summary:	URL handlers won't work in Firefox
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Elad Alfassa <elad>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	carlos.soriano89, gecko-bugs-nobody, kalevlember, samuel-rhbugs, stransky
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Description Elad Alfassa 2014-06-06 15:35:53 UTC

It seems that Firefox doesn't follow GNOME's way of setting url scheme handlers.


Apps which set default url handlers (such as transmission which sets magnet://) don't show up in the dialog that pops up and you have to manually add them.

Firefox should respect the desktop's way of setting URL handlers to allow any app to set them if needed.

This used to work some time ago, I'm not sure when it stopped working. Various resources online say Firefox uses gconf for url handlers in Linux, but the GNOME desktop stopped using gconf for url handlers around 3.5 years ago.

Comment 1 Carlos Soriano 2014-06-07 18:36:15 UTC

are you referring to this? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005626

Comment 2 Elad Alfassa 2014-06-07 18:38:13 UTC

Indeed.

We need this working because we want to add a "software://" url handler to make it possible to make links that will open specific apps in GNOME Software to allow the user to install them.

Comment 3 Carlos Soriano 2014-06-07 18:39:21 UTC

yeah, then here's the upstream bug =)

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2014-06-10 14:45:02 UTC

Jan, could you check this one?

Comment 5 Jan Horak 2014-09-04 12:43:59 UTC

(In reply to Carlos Soriano from comment #1)
> are you referring to this?
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005626

This works for me in Firefox 31. Reporter please let us know if you still can reproduce it.

Comment 6 Elad Alfassa 2014-09-04 12:50:46 UTC

Seems to be fixed here (tested in Firefox 32).