I think it's a clear dupe of Bug 1618094, we landed a workaround for it, but it introduced a related problem of not being trivial to add a new handler (that is tracked in bug 1786132)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1618094 *** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1963863 Title: [snap] Firefox tries to open an application for localhost link Status in Mozilla Firefox: Invalid Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I'm opening an address like localhost:8080 (without the http), snap firefox will assume that 'localhost' is the scheme and start an application that registered localhost: To test, open Firefox and type 'localhost:8080' in the address bar and hit enter. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1963863/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp